put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative +

1. A narrative or record of events.
2. A report relating to one's conduct: "She gave a satisfactory account of herself."
3. A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.
4. A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.
5. Money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.
6. A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm.
7. Worth, standing, or importance: "He was a landowner of some account."
8. Profit or advantage: "She turned her writing skills to good account."
9. Etymology: Middle English, from Old French acont, from aconter, "to reckon" from a-, "to" (Latin, ad-) + cunter, "to count, to tell"; from Latin computre, "to sum up".

1. The state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
2. Responsibility to someone or for some activity.
3. In education: a policy of holding schools and teachers accountable for students' academic progress by linking such progress with funding for salaries, maintenance, etc.

1. Subject to the obligation to report, to explain, or to justify something; being responsible; answerable.
2. Capable of being explained; explicable; explainable.

1. Descriptive of being liable or being called to account; answerable.
2. A reference to that which can be explained; such as, an accountable phenomenon.

1. Someone who maintains and audits business accounts.
2. Somebody who takes care of the business records of a person, or organization, and prepares forms and reports for tax or other financial purposes.

1. Someone who accounts, reckons, calculates, gives help to, or renders an account.
2. A narrator.

1. To cut off a projecting body part, a limb, or other appendage of the body; especially, in a surgical operation; literally, "to cut around".
2. Etymology: from the Mid-16th century Latin amputat-, past participle of amputare, "cut around" from ambi-, "around" plus putare "to cut".

1. Surgical removal of all or part of a limb (arm, leg, or parts of such), an organ, or projecting part or process of the body.
2. Traumatic or spontaneous loss of a limb, organ, or part.

The most common indication for amputation of an upper limb is severe trauma. Other indications may include malignancy, infection, and gangrene.

One who performs an amputation.

1. Someone who has had a limb of the body or part of a limb cut off.
2. A person or people who have had one or more limbs removed by amputations.

A very fast computer made from biochemical substances instead of conventional materials.

Its calculations are performed using biological processes instead of semiconductor technology.

1. The ability to determine by calculation or reckoning.
2. That which can be computed or estimated by using a computer or calculator.

That which can be computed or estimated: "He was able to determine the computable odds."

A top-down model of the economy that includes all of its major components and markets, and the relationships between them.

1. The procedure of calculating.
2. Determining something by mathematical or logical methods.
3. Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.