computing

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 9.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The process or act of calculation.
2. noun The use of a computer or computers.
3. noun The study of computers and computer programming.

   This course will cover several major fields of computing.

4. verb present participle and gerund of compute

Similar words

cypher cipher calculate figure reckon computational computation calculator informatics computer

Often followed by

the and systems power a machinery in time environment

Word family

computable computation computational computations compute computed computer computerised computers