computationaladj.
/ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Of, relating to, or used for computation; relating to or making use of computers.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective]
logistical1570
rationary1656
logistic1706
numerative1788
computational1881
supercomputing1927
society > computing and information technology > [adjective]
computerized1952
computational1956
digitalized1959
infotech1981
cyber1992
1881 Observatory Feb. 39 The mathematical and computational part of the investigation of Lunar libration.
1920 Sci. Monthly Mar. 260 In Fig. 128 we have before us a computational tablet of great interest, being the oldest such tablet as yet discovered.
1956 Nature 7 Jan. 1/1 The work carried out by Dr. A. D. Booth, head of the Computational Laboratory there, on mechanical translation.
1962 Listener 5 Apr. 594/2 Young children of eight, with weaknesses in computational ability.
1988 New Yorker 7 Nov. 44/1 The computer industry's strengths—astoundingly vast and rapid computational power, the automation of trillions of transactions—have been well known for some time.
2002 J. Helfand Reinventing the Wheel 15 Punch cards remain Babbage's greatest and perhaps most enduring contribution to modern-day computational machinery.
Compounds
C1. Designating branches of subjects which are concerned with calculation or dependent on the use of computers and the techniques of computer science, as computational astronomy, computational chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, computational mathematics, computational neuroscience, etc.
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1912 Science 6 Sept. 317/1 Without doubt, it is the most valuable work on ‘Computational Astronomy’ which we have.
1929 Math. Teacher 22 194 Informational mathematics will be greatly reduced if the critics of computational mathematics have their way.
1948 D. J. Struik Conc. Hist. Math. (ed. 2) iii. 67 The Orient itself had made considerable advances in computational astronomy during the period just preceeding the Hellenistic era.
1972 P. J. Roache (title) Computational fluid dynamics.
1976 Science 6 Aug. 470 (title) Computational chemistry: getting more from a minicomputer.
1983 M. A. Boden in B. Dixon From Creation to Chaos (1993) 14 They are the sorts of problems to which computational psychology is especially well suited, for they concern the ways in which we store, retrieve, compare, and transform various sorts of symbolically represented information.
1990 New Scientist 28 July 75 (advt.) The applicant should..be a practitioner in computational fluid mechanics.
1992 Appl. Linguistics 13 284 Computational neuroscience investigates how neural networks interact to process information.
2004 BusinessWeek 7 June 133/1 In computational biology—using software to tackle problems ranging from medical diagnosis to drug discovery—the U.S. has an even bigger handicap.
C2.
computational linguist n. a student or practitioner of computational linguistics.
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the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > other specific branches or schools > student or adherent of
mathematical linguist1951
stratificationalist1965
computational linguist1966
Firthian1981
1966 Amer. Anthropologist 68 1312 They are generally held to be among the less sophisticated uses of a computer, but more sophistication is apparently going to require more effort on the part of linguists rather than of computational linguists.
2004 Science 27 Feb. 1327/3 Computational linguists..have built computer models to understand the dynamics of such evolution.
computational linguistics n. the branch of linguistics in which the techniques of computer science are applied to the analysis and synthesis of language and speech.
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the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > other specific branches or schools
historical linguistics1871
functional grammar1894
applied linguistics1922
functionalism1935
prelinguistics1949
metalinguistics1951
mathematical linguistics1955
systemic linguistics1958
computational linguistics1961
emic1962
microsociolinguistics1968
stratificationalism1968
creolistics1970
macrolinguistics1972
1961 Language 37 409 Another possible name for the field is computational linguistics, but it has a difficulty in that to many people computational tends to suggest not just the computer but also, or instead, numerical calculation.
1992 H. J. Neuhaus in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 778 There is a long tradition in computational linguistics of using detailed lexical information to resolve ambiguities in parsing procedures.
2004 Science 27 Feb. 1327/1 Researchers in the field of computational linguistics are using computer models of speech communities to explore how..language changes emerge in multilingual populations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1881