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hypercomputing

hypercomputing is the present participle and gerund of hypercompute.

Meaning of hypercompute

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

Questions about hypercomputing

What is hypercomputing the present participle and gerund of?
Hypercomputing is the present participle and gerund of hypercompute.

Words near hypercomputing in the dictionary

  1. hypercomputation
  2. hypercomputations
  3. hypercompute
  4. hypercomputer
  5. hypercomputers
  6. hypercomputing
  7. hyperconcentrated
  8. hyperconcentration
  9. hyperconcentrations
  10. hypercondensation
  11. hypercondensations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypercomputing (page history and authors); hypercompute (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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