number-crunchv.
/ˈnʌmbəˌkrʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˈnəmbərˌkrən(t)ʃ/ colloquial.
transitive. To process (large amounts of numerical data). Also intransitive.
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1974 Wireless World Dec. 483/3 And then ‘number crunching’ the data in a computer.
1991 Euromoney Jan. 88/1 The dealer accesses via his desktop PC a powerful computer on a local network which number-crunches incoming market data-feeds.
1995 Times (Nexis) 25 Oct. A computer incorporating quantum effects could number-crunch in multiple universes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1974- to shoot at etc
- to shoot at etc an object
- to shoot at rovers
- to shoot at to
- to shoot at to an object
- to shoot back
- to shoot beside
- to shoot blanks
- to shoot casino
- to shoot compass
- to shoot craps
- to shoot down
- to shoot down in flames
- to shoot far from
- to shoot flying
- to shoot for the stick
- to shoot forth, out, away
- to shoot from the hip
- to shoot in
- to shoot in another's bow
- to shoot in bow
- to shoot it out
- to shoot near the mark
- to shoot nipshot
- to shoot off a tie