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noun

Definition of cipheringnext
as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value he wasn't very good at ciphering, but he had excellent language skills

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ciphering

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verb

present participle of cipher
as in calculating
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total

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  1. calculation
  2. calculating
  3. arithmetic
  4. math
  5. computing
  6. computation
Noun
  • The United States’ ranking is held down by its lack of reciprocity, according to how Henley & Partners makes its calculations.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Crutchfield, a former math teacher who never played college basketball and coached tennis before getting his big D-II break at West Liberty University, sees the game like a math problem and has created his own calculations.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of calculation
Verb
  • When calculating on-time performance, Cirium tracks more than 35 million flights globally per year and uses a complex methodology that factors in delays and cancellations as well as passenger volume.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Still, calculating what beneficiaries are owned may not be simple or quick.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of calculating
Noun
  • So tariff revenue will not be as high as our initial arithmetic shows, but the loss of consumer welfare will be in the ballpark of that initial figure.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving teams like Florida State last season, Texas A&M in 2020, UCF in 2017 and Baylor and TCU in 2014 cursing the way college football crowned a champion.
    David Ubben, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
Definition of arithmetic
Noun
  • Benjamin, a senior studying math and economics at Brown University, was initially working on a project about taxis when his adviser, professor Emily Oster, made a suggestion about switching topics.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In 2022, Baltimore City had 23 schools without a single student who tested proficient in math, Maryland State Department of Education data revealed.
    Patrick Hauf, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of math
Verb
  • The actors' strike also posed the same problem for OD, Kojima's second game in development, powered by cloud computing technology from Microsoft's Xbox division.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The proliferation of mobile banking and the need for real-time transaction processing has pushed computing to the edge.
    Ramasankar Molleti, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of computing
Noun
  • This consists of an input layer that receives a signal, an optical cavity that acts like a second layer containing feedback loops (or recurrent loops) that can be tweaked to change the device behavior and an output layer that produces the result of this computation.
    The Physics arXiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The problem is that this cascading requires massive parallel computations that, when done on standard computers, take tons of energy and time.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of computation
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