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 investigate how much computation a single neuron can perform, the researchers created a new method for measuring the computational complexity of individual brain cells.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Each cell can operate as a sophisticated computing unit in its own right, with computational abilities comparable to those of a deep neural network.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Building on the durable relationship between music and numbers, the authors also explore computational instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“When people hear that a virus was generated by AI, a lot of people are going to be terrified,” said Peter Koo, a computational biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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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