| 单词 | computable |
| 释义 | computable (once / 168848 pages) adj Typical math problems are computable: their answers can be determined by counting, calculating, or, as the word suggests, computing. The symbolism and meaning in Emily Dickinson or Herman Melville? Nope — not computable. The word compute was born in the 1600s, but what was computable back then, with pencils and paper, is a far cry from what is computable in the information age. What began in the 1940s with the work of the British mathematician Alan Turning has rapidly evolved into ever smaller, faster, more powerful machines ("computers," of course) that make ever greater amounts of data computable, which in turn has made any number of inventions and processes possible. WORD FAMILYcomputable: incomputable+/computation: computational, computations/computational: computationally/compute: computable, computation, computed, computer, computes, computing/computer: computerise, computerize, computers, microcomputer, supercomputer/computerise: computerised/computerize: computerization, computerized, computerizes, computerizing/microcomputer: microcomputers/supercomputer: supercomputers USAGE EXAMPLESProblems like image and speech recognition can be broken apart into easily computable chunks and reassembled into an answer. Forbes(Mar 20, 2015) Oh yes, “On Computable Numbers, With An Application to the Entscheidungsproblem,” had practical importance, for it was arguably the founding document of the computer age. Washington Post(Feb 20, 2015) The problem was that it had become unclear whether it was possible for a logical system to be complete, consistent and computable. Forbes(Jan 24, 2015) adj may be computed or estimated computable odds Syn estimable calculable capable of being calculated or estimated |
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