computational

American  

[kahm-pyoo-tay-shuhn-uhl] / ˌkɑm pjuˈteɪ ʃən əl /

adjective

1. relating to work involving computers or calculations.

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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.

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While most part-time traders lack these pros’ computational prowess or technological advantages, the market’s growth will continue to draw other sophisticated players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

He read the candidate's earlier work anyway -- a computational chemistry project called ProteoWizard.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Niusha Shafiabady, professor of computational intelligence at the Australian Catholic University, said this incident had shown the need to "judge autonomous AI by its behaviour under pressure, not by the promises in a product launch".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The design combines the robustness needed for difficult, high-speed maneuvers with enough computational efficiency to work in real time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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