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Computation is the work of working out numbers — or the answer you get when you finish. It can be a person with a pencil, but today it very often means a computer doing the sums: the computation took all night. Scientists and textbooks like this word. Everyday English more often says calculation or just the maths. Though actually, computation has drifted toward 'what a machine does,' while calculation still covers doing it by hand. You can use it for the process and for the result.
計算、運算
組成compute（計算）+ -ation（動作或結果）。從晚期中古英語 computacioun、法文 computation、拉丁文 computatiō / computare 來。
同家族的字
- computethe verb this noun is built from
- computerthe machine that does the computing
- computationalthe adjective: about computation
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
computationnoun/ˌkɒmpjʊˈteɪʃn̩/
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The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
- As there are some naturally deficient in the power of computation, others in an ear for harmony, so Francis Evelyn was utterly devoid of truth—he neither understood its moral beauty nor its actual utility.
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The result of computation; the amount computed.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。