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hypercompute

hypercompute verb: to carry out hypercomputation.

Verb

hypercompute (third-person singular simple present hypercomputes, present participle hypercomputing, simple past and past participle hypercomputed)

  1. (transitive) To carry out hypercomputation.
    • Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144).2008 October 22, Sven Ove Hansson, “Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski, and Robert Janusz (eds): Church’s Thesis After 70 Years”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Forms of hypercompute

third-person singular presenthypercomputes
present participlehypercomputing
past participlehypercomputed
pasthypercomputed

Origin of hypercompute

From hyper- + compute.

Questions about hypercompute

What does hypercompute mean?
Hypercompute means to carry out hypercomputation.
What part of speech is hypercompute?
Hypercompute is a verb.
What is the past tense of hypercompute?
The past tense of hypercompute is hypercomputed.

Words near hypercompute in the dictionary

  1. hypercomplexity
  2. hypercompliance
  3. hypercompliant
  4. hypercomputation
  5. hypercomputations
  6. hypercompute
  7. hypercomputer
  8. hypercomputers
  9. hypercomputing
  10. hyperconcentrated
  11. hyperconcentration

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