| comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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| compact | (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
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| (noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
| (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
| compaction | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: crunch, crush |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compression, concretion, densification |
| compactness | (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: concentration, denseness, density, tightness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a compact solid | - |
| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| company | (noun) a social gathering of guests or companions | - |
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| (noun) an institution created to conduct business | - |
| (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: troupe |
| (noun) small military unit; usually two or three platoons | - |
| (noun) crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship | Synonyms: ship's company |
| (noun) a unit of firefighters including their equipment | - |
| (noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: party |
| (noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: caller |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society |
| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparing | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparison |
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| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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| (noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
| compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| compilation | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compiling |
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| (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: digest |
| compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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| (noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
| (noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
| (noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
| (noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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| complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
| completeness | (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system | - |
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| (noun) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed | - |
| completion | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, culmination, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football | Synonyms: pass completion |
| complex | (noun) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures | Synonyms: building complex |
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| (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: composite |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior | - |
| (noun) a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated | Synonyms: coordination compound |
| complexifier | (noun) someone makes things complex | - |
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| complexion | (noun) the coloring of a person's face | Synonyms: skin color, skin colour |
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| (noun) (obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament | - |
| (noun) texture and appearance of the skin of the face | - |
| (noun) a point of view or general attitude or inclination | - |
| (noun) a combination that results from coupling or interlinking | - |
| complexity | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexness |
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| complexness | (noun) the quality of being intricate and compounded | Synonyms: complexity |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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| complication | (noun) the act or process of complicating | - |
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| (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: ramification |
| (noun) a situation or condition that is complex or confused | - |
| (noun) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease | - |
| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| complin | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: compline |
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| compline | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: complin |
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| component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
| comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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| composedness | (noun) The state or quality of showing composure. | - |
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| composer | (noun) someone who composes music, usually as a profession | - |
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| composing | (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composition |
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| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composition |
| composite | (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
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| (noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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| composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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| (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
| (noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
| (noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| compost | (noun) a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| composure | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, equanimity |
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| compote | (noun) dessert of stewed or baked fruit | Synonyms: fruit compote |
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| compound | (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
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| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compress | (noun) a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) | - |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compression | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compressing |
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| (noun) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: condensation, contraction |
| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, concretion, densification |
| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| compromise | (noun) a middle way between two extremes | Synonyms: via media |
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| (noun) an accommodation in which both sides make concessions | - |
| compromiser | (noun) a negotiator willing to compromise | - |
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| compsognathus | (noun) very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria | - |
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| comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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| comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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| compulsion | (noun) using force to cause something to occur | Synonyms: coercion |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: obsession |
| (noun) an urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid | Synonyms: irresistible impulse |
| compulsive | (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
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| compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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| compulsivity | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsiveness |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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| computation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computing |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, figuring, reckoning |
| computer | (noun) a machine for performing calculations automatically | Synonyms: computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system |
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| (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
| computerization | (noun) the control of processes by computer | Synonyms: cybernation |
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| computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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| (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |