(now rare, chiefly historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes. / Hyponym: computress

(computing, informal) computation

The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. / The result of computation; the amount computed.

(transitive) To reckon, calculate. / (intransitive, informal) To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)

plural of computer

Calculated, determined by computation. / Derived rather than measured.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute

simple past tense and past participle of compute

plural of computation

(obsolete) To compute