Compute \Com*pute"\, n. [L. computus: cf. F. comput.] Computation. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Compute \Com*pute"\ (k[o^]m*p[=u]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Computed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Computing}.] [L. computare. See {Count}, v. t.] To determine by calculation; to reckon; to count.
Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. --Milton.
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. --Burns.
Syn: To calculate; number; count; reckon; estimate; enumerate; rate. See {Calculate}.
In the new NASA-funded study, they were able to compute the time of the 532 and the 1876 B.C. eclipses.
The Cray-3 and Cray-2 are designed to have at least four times as much memory as the other Cray machines and compute at a faster rate.
But for every acre planted in excess of 95 percent of the base, the acreage used to compute "deficiency" payments would be reduced by one acre.
"This law was never intended to change the time by which you compute a person's age by their date of birth," he said. "Nobody has the right to have that date moved up or back.
NEC said its ACOS 3800 machine can compute 100 million instructions a second (mips) on one processor, and 500 mips with six processors.
The total lifetime wages of a husband and wife are combined, then divided to compute each person's retirement check.
It carries no price tag and defies any effort to compute one.
The consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, which is used to compute cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security benefits, fell 0.1% in March; it now stands 4.6% above the year-earlier level.
A worksheet to compute the phase-out above certain income levels of the 15% tax rate and of exemptions will appear in instructions; it need not be filed with returns.
The formula used to compute "body mass index" is this: weight in kilograms, divided by height in meters squared.
Advertisements for home equity loans must include cost information such as loan fees, the rate used to compute finance charges, the maximum annual percentage rate for variable-rate loans and tax implications, the Fed said.
The IRS said it will compute the penalty and waiver amounts that apply and bill taxpayers for any amount due.
Advertisers contend the tax will be complicated to compute and difficult to collect, and some predict it will be repealed for that reason.
Taxpayers who have substantial non-wage income and want to compute the penalty themselves can use form 2210.
If Guinness doesn't appeal, he continued, the company and the panel soon will begin talks to compute the exact amount of payments to former Distillers shareholders.
In addition, IRS officials note that the form taxpayers would need to compute their Medicare premium tax liability, Form 8808, does not exist.