put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative +
(Latin: to think over, to consider, to reckon, to count; to trim, to prune, to lop, to cut, to clean)
From Latin, puto-, putare: literally; especially of trees, "to lop, to prune" and "to cleanse, to clear"; then (1) "to clear up, to settle"; especially, of accounts; (2) "to reckon, to estimate, to value"; (3) "to consider, to hold, to believe, to think".
—Cassell's New Latin Dictinary; Funk & wagnalls Company; New York; 1968.
computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
The application of computer technology to make quantitative analyses and predictions concerning the behavior of fluids in motion, and their effect on the solids with which they are in contact.
compute
1. To calculate an answer or result; especially, using a computer.
2. To yield a result; especially, a correct result, from calculation: "She found out that these numbers just don't compute."
3. To use a computer or calculator.
computer
1. A machine that can be programmed to manipulate symbols.
2. A device that computes, especially a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.
3. Someone who computes.
Computers can perform complex and repetitive procedures quickly, precisely, and reliably and can quickly store and retrieve large amounts of data.
The physical components from which a computer is constructed (electronic circuits and input/output devices) are known as "hardware".
Most computers have four types of hardware components: CPU, input, output and memory. The CPU (central processing unit) executes programs ("software") which tell the computer what to do.
Input and output (I/O) devices allow the computer to communicate with the user and the outside world. There are several kinds of memory: fast, expensive, short term memory (e.g. RAM) to hold intermediate results, and slower, cheaper, long-term memory (e.g. magnetic disk and magnetic tape) to hold programs and data between jobs.
Origin of the word computer
The term computer is a word which was formed in English from the verb compute and it has a recorded history going back to 1646, when it was used to mean "a person who computes".
In 1897, the word was first recorded as "a calculating machine", although that particular machine, which was "of the nature of a circular slide rule", did not resemble a modern computer.
Humans were the earliest computers. These "counting persons" were professionals who worked with numbers and were credited with great accuracy. The early computing was manual and involved the use of such counting tools as the abacus and a variety of slide rules.
When adding machines were developed, the man or woman who computed with one of these "rapid" devices, often called the counting machine a computer.
—What's in a Word? by Webb Garrison;
Rudledge Hill Press; Nashville, Tennessee; 2000, pages 3-4.
computerese
Computer workers', or programmers', jargon.
computerphobia
An intense dislike or exaggerated fear of computers or any association with them.
A man has such a fear of computers that he imagines that a computer is trying to attack him.
computer science
Employment in the branch of science that promotes knowledge which is concerned with information processes, the structures and procedures that represent these processes, and their implementation in the various information-processing systems.
computist
1. A keeper of accounts, an accountant.
2. Someone who performs the computations entering into astronomical and other problem
computistical
Pertaining to, or a reference to, a computus.
computus
1. A computation, a reckoning; an account.
2. The medieval name for a set of tables for practically calculating astronomical occurrences and the movable dates of the calendar; a calendar.
count
1. To say numbers in order, usually starting at one.
2. To add things up to see how many there are or to find the value of an amount of money.
3. To include someone or something in a calculation: "If you count Sam and me, there will be ten people."
4. To consider someone or something, or to be considered, in a particular way or as a particular thing.
5. To be of importance or value.
6. To have a specific value.
7. To keep musical time by counting beats.
counter
When the President of the United States has opinions which are sometimes counter to those of Congress, he is known to encounter opposition.
deputation
1. A group of representatives or delegates.
2. Authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions.
3. The act of appointing a person, or people, to represent or act for another or others.
depute
1. To appoint, or authorize, someone as an agent or a representative.
2. To assign (authority or duties) to another person; a delegate.
deputize
1. To appoint as a substitute.
2. To act as a substitute.
deputy
1. An assistant with power to act when his/her superior is absent.
2. Someone authorized to exercise the powers of a sheriff in emergencies.
3. Anyone who is appointed to represent or to act on behalf of others.
4. A representative in a legislative body in certain countries.
Related cutting-word units:
castrat-;
-cise, -cide;
-ectomy;
sec-, seg-;
temno-;
-tomy;
trunc-.
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