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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Von Arx is a computational biologist by training.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He read the candidate's earlier work anyway -- a computational chemistry project called ProteoWizard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"We combined state-of-the-art DNA sequencing and computational methods to generate and compare these genomes and identify the genes they contain," said senior author Professor Michael Hiller, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 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
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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