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computing

[kuhm-pyoo-ting] / kəmˈpyu tɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
making
Synonyms
STRONG
aggregating completing concluding constituting producing reckoning summing
WEAK
adding up to consisting of
NOUN
accounting
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bookkeeping
STRONG
auditing calculating reckoning
WEAK
balancing the books
NOUN
addition
Synonyms
STRONG
accretion counting reckoning summation
WEAK
accruing adding enlarging expanding increasing summing tabulating totaling toting
Antonyms
WEAK
decrease deduction lessening loss reduction shrinkage subtraction withdrawal
NOUN
computation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
calculation
STRONG
counting estimation figuring gauge guess reckoning
WEAK
ciphering data processing estimating summing totalling
Antonyms
WEAK
conjecture guesstimation
NOUN
totalization
Synonyms
WEAK
accretion accruing adding counting enlarging expanding increasing reckoning summation summing tabulating totaling toting

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Running Low: The artificial intelligence gold rush is rapidly drying up the supply of the one resource that AI developers can’t do without: computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

He added that when viewed from the longer-term history of computing and technology, “costs always fall due to economies of scale.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

In January, the chip designer struck a deal worth upward of $10 billion to supply 750 megawatts of computing power using its processors to OpenAI, The Wall Street Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

This new approach integrates quantum computing into a specific stage of the AI training process.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026

I had heard through the grapevine that a former math teacher named Dorothy Vaughan was running NACA’s highly regarded West Area computing unit, which was composed entirely of Colored women.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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