compute
verb (used with object)
to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate.
has computed
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present perfectof compute (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Software also will be needed to present what AI has computed in a way that people can understand, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
"I think the Small Magellanic Cloud smashed right through the Large Magellanic Cloud," says astronomer Gurtina Besla of Columbia University, who has computed their past paths.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2013
By the 10th of September, as Henri has computed, this Country will be eaten; "Forage, I find, will be quite done here on September 10th," writes Henri, after a week or two's experience.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle
Yet God has computed instantaneously every table of logarithms, and every other mathematical table,--no matter how difficult.
From The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments by William A. (William Asbury) Williams
The Hon. H. Taylor, in "The North American Review" of November, 1898, has computed that the New World was thus divided in 1801: Spain 7,028,000 square miles.
From The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by John Holland Rose
