compute

Etymology

17th century. Borrowed from French computer, from Latin computō (“calculate, compute”). Doublet of count.

verb

1. (transitive) To reckon, calculate.
   Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201?
   Coxhead (2000) computed that the AWL covered approximately 10% of the academic corpus from which it was derived[.] 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 112
2. (intransitive, informal) To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs)
   Does that compute, or do I need to explain further?
   And you'd feel an utter fool if, when you asked where the biscuit was, a message came out: "Biscuits do not compute. Your wife programmed your diet." 2 Aug 1967, The Australian Women's Weekly, Sydney, page 46, column 2
   Guitarist Chris Stein is also against defining the music. When he sees a reporter with a notebook backstage after a concert he does robot impersonations saying, 'What is punk rock? What is punk rock? Brurruph, burruph, does not compute.' 15 Dec 1977, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 15, column 3

noun

1. (computing, informal) computational processing power
   The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enough compute for the entire model.
   Once you have the total, does it exceed the maximum amount of compute that can be served up in your vCenter environment? It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide. 2015, J. Powell, Mastering vRealize Automation 6.2, page 41
   To change the amount of compute and memory, you can select a different DB Instance class of the database. 2016, Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam