computing

The process or act of calculation.

Noun

  1. The process or act of calculation.
  2. The use of a computer or computers.
    • Home computing includes children accessing information for educational purposes, parents accessing information for recreational purposes, users working from home, retired people 'silver surfers' that use computers for...
  3. The study of computers and computer programming.
    • This course will cover several major fields of computing.

Origin

By surface analysis, compute + -ing.

Forms

computings

Synonyms

computation reckoning

Hyponyms

advanced computing affective computing biocomputing burst computing cloud computing dew computing distributed computing edge computing fog computing geocomputing grid computing home computing memcomputing mesh computing microcomputing minicomputing nanocomputing neurocomputing parallel computing quantum computing reservoir computing retrocomputing scientific computing supercomputing

Related

computable computation computerize

Derived

computing language noncomputing spatial computing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of compute

Wikipedia

Computing