computing
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English
Etymology
By surface analysis, compute + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
computing (usually uncountable, plural computings)
- (literally) The process or act of calculation.
- The use of a computer or computers.
- 2007, Sharon Yull, BTEC First ICT Practitioners:
- Home computing includes children accessing information for educational purposes, parents accessing information for recreational purposes, users working from home, retired people 'silver surfers' that use computers for keeping in touch via e-mail, the Internet and through possible on-line clubs and societies.
- The study of computers and computer programming.
- This course will cover several major fields of computing.
Synonyms
- (process or act of calculation): computation, reckoning; see also Thesaurus:calculation
Hyponyms
- advanced computing
- affective computing
- biocomputing
- burst computing
- cloud computing
- dew computing
- distributed computing
- edge computing
- fog computing
- geocomputing
- grid computing
- home computing
- memcomputing
- mesh computing
- microcomputing
- minicomputing
- nanocomputing
- neurocomputing
- parallel computing
- quantum computing
- reservoir computing
- retrocomputing
- scientific computing
- supercomputing
- telecomputing
- thin computing
- ubiquitous computing
- utility computing
Derived terms
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Translations
calculation — see calculation
action of using a computer
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the study, field of computers and computer programming
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Verb
computing
- present participle and gerund of compute