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🧮 Able to calculate 🖥️ Related to calculation 🤔 Practical and logical
computative

computative

7.7
Can be calculated using a computer
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : computable
  • The formula is only computative when all variables are known.

Examples

  • The software checks if the task is computative before attempting to solve it.

  • Some mathematical problems are not computative with current technology.

  • This method is computative and effective.

  • The results are computative and can be verified easily.

  • The formula is only computative when all variables are known.

  • Some mathematical problems are not computative with current technology.

  • The software checks if the task is computative before attempting to solve it.

Synonyms

computable
vscomputative
  • Specialized
1 5.9

Able to be calculated using math or a computer

is defined by being solvable directly through computation rather than general estimation
calculable
vscomputative
1 4.9

Possible to work out using numbers

is about being determined by computation more strictly than mere possibility

Antonyms

incomputable
  • Specialized
9.9

Too hard to calculate or measure

Surface Forms

computative positive

Morphology

computative = compute (transparent) = compute + ative

Formed from the familiar verb 'compute' with a productive adjectival suffix '-ative', so the meaning 'relating to or able to be calculated' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Computative comes from compute, which comes from Latin parts com- 'together' and putare 'to reckon'. Think of a computer or someone who counts, so computative means 'able to be calculated'.