computable

[Lat. computabilis, from computo.] [COMPUTE.] Capable of being computed or reckoned. "If, instead of twenty-four letters, there were twenty. four millions, as those twenty-four millions are a finite number, so would all combinations thereof be finite, though not easily computable by arithmetic." - Hale: Origin of Mankind. IMG:content-0445.png:[blocks in formation] "The intense heat.. is proved by computators . to be more than equal to that of red-hot iron." Sterne: Trist. Shandy, i. 153. ( Davies .) com-püte, v . t . & i . [ Lat.computo =to compute, to reckon: com = cum =together; puto =to think, to consider; Sp.computar ; Ital. com put are .] [COUNT.] A. Trans.: Τo count, to reckon, to calculate, to number. 1. By a mathematical proce : Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvi. 156. 2. Mentally : con "And to an inch compute the station 'Twixt judgment and imagination." Prior : Alma , iii. reckoner. II. Technically ( of things ): Any of the various machines designed to aid computation; a calculat ing machine. the draw-bar pull of any locomotive, and the effect The locomotive traction computer gives of any change of pre ure, wheel, or cylinder. The train resistance computer gives the resistance per ton of any weight of train, at any speed, on any grade, and tells what any locomotive of known power will pull on any grade, at any speed. The steam engine computer works out the dimensions of cylinders for simple and compound engines, the length of stroke, number of revolutions, mean ef. fective pre ures, horse power, etc., of all kinds of steam engines. There are various other forms of mechanical computers, the simpler ones being com. monly termed calculators . [ARITHMOMETER, COMP TO METER.] com-pu-ting, pr. par., a. & s. [COMPUTE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of calculating, reckoning, or counting.