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computist

computist noun: one who performs computations.

Noun

computist (plural computists)

  1. One who performs computations.
  2. One who performs computus (calculation of the date of Easter).
    • Despite the high acclaim and wide acceptance of Bede's work, centuries later, medieval computists were still working on the same problem. Given the (relatively) confined scope of the mathematics involved, how did computus manage to remain such a core intellectual pursuit? In part, computists...2013 August 8, Charlotte Mulcare, “The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013

Forms of computist

pluralcomputists

Origin of computist

From compute + -ist.

Questions about computist

What does computist mean?
Computist means one who performs computations.
What part of speech is computist?
Computist is a noun.
What is the plural of computist?
The plural of computist is computists.

Words near computist in the dictionary

  1. computing
  2. computing language
  3. computing languages
  4. computings
  5. computionality
  6. computist
  7. computistic
  8. computistical
  9. computistically
  10. computists
  11. computor

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