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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To ground this heavy computational architecture in environmental responsibility, the Large Nature Model is hosted by a dedicated Google Cloud server cluster in Oregon running on 87% carbon-free renewable energy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
If we are merely biological machines—producers, consumers or data points—then superior computational systems threaten to eclipse humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Wang pivoted from compute, or computational power and capacity, to another area he’s excited about: connecting the data centers through optical networking, which gets increasingly important as a building gets bigger.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Another Birmingham team, led by Professor Andrew Morris and Dr. Mario Ongkiko, used AI-driven computational modeling to help interpret the complex NMR data.
From Science Daily • May 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
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