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Comprehend vs Compute - What's the difference?

comprehend | compute | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between comprehend and compute

is that comprehend is to include, comprise; to contain while compute is to reckon or calculate.

comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
    • In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

    • Related terms

    * comprehensibility * comprehensible * comprehension * comprehensive * comprehensiveness * comprise ----

    compute

    English

    Verb

    (comput)
  • To reckon or calculate.
    • Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201?
  • (informal) To make sense.
    • Does that compute , or do I need to explain further?

    Related terms

    * computable * computability * computation * computational * computer * computing * miscompute * recompute * count

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