computational
Americanadjective
Explanation
Computational is an adjective referring to a system of calculating or "computing," or, more commonly today, work involving computers. Tasks with a lot of computational steps are best performed on modern digital computers. While humans still can’t be beat for their intuition and insight in determining just how to solve a particular problem, we are an error-prone species. Before the invention of computers, teams of people did not only computational work but also needed to check each other's work for mistakes.
Vocabulary lists containing computational
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Example Sentences
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They’ve long been claiming that their tools, engineered as hyperfast pattern-recognition machines, are not just performing computational mathematics but are actually “self-aware” and “conscious.”
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
The report said that Dell is well positioned to benefit from global AI infrastructure spending as agentic AI workloads raise computational requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But computational capabilities have only recently progressed to the point scientists like Amaya have been able to model and track them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
In an extra test in this round of Pisa, Welsh teens also scored lower than their peers in other UK nations in computational problem solving.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It was the year when computational power became infinite—or so close to infinite that it could no longer be measured.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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