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Definition of Computes
1. compute [v] - See also: compute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Computes
Literary usage of Computes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Base SAS(R) 9.1.3 Procedures Guide, Second Edition, Volumes 1-4 by Sas Institute (2006)
"By default, PROC MEANS produces printed output and PROC SUMMARY creates an output
data set. computes most of the same statistics as PROC TABULATE; ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"Bernard applauds his own success in the depopulation of Europe ; affirms that
cities and castles were emptied of their inhabitants ; and computes, that only ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"So where the testator, in disposing of his personal estate, constitutes two
residues, and computes the first after taking out of it one or more legacies, ..."
4. Conversations on Some of the Old Poets by James Russell Lowell (1893)
"And, as it works, the industrious bee computes its time as well as we. How could
such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and ..."
5. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"... industrious bee 'rare, exotic sa bed of various flowers which, opening at
successive hours, indicate the time of day computes its time as well as we ! ..."
6. The Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford, from Documents of the by Christopher Wordsworth (1904)
"We observed also that the computes or Kalendar with the Table to find Moveable
Feasts, &c., ... computes ..."
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