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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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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
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushed to admit the casualties sustained by his country's forces, after a substantial calculation was provided by U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Tesla’s China sales fell by 4.3% in November from a year ago, while BYD saw a 67% surge, according to CNBC calculations of China Passenger Car Association Data.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of calculation
Verb
  • As noted in past blogs, BLS uses lagged rent data in calculating the CPI.
    Robert Barone, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • That figure also represented the total number of employees that could be hired, without calculating the impact of the number of IRS workers who are expected to retire or leave the department over the next several years.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of calculating
Noun
  • For Macron at least, the arithmetic doesn’t add up.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The incoming administration will face stark fiscal arithmetic: Most federal dollars go to direct transfers to Americans, disproportionately located in the very places that propelled President-elect Trump back to the White House.
    Kristal Dixon, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of arithmetic
Noun
  • But the study authors made a math mistake, miscalculating how much of potentially toxic flame retardants a 132-pound person could safely ingest.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of math
Verb
  • The business is booming due to soaring demand for computing power that can handle artificial intelligence projects.
    Jonathan Vanian,Ari Levy, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The quantum computing horizon presents cryptographic challenges, spurring research into quantum-resistant protocols.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of computing
Noun
  • Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of enterprise AI deployments will incorporate privacy-enhancing computation techniques.
    Sai Arava, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Willow was able to perform a computation in under five minutes that would take Frontier, the world’s fastest existing supercomputer, 10 septillion years to solve.
    Peter Green, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of computation
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