Past tense of compute
regular verb
The past tense of compute is computed. The past participle is also computed.
Forms of compute
| Base form (V1) | compute /kəmˈpjuːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | computed /kəmˈpjuːtɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | computed /kəmˈpjuːtɪd/ |
| Present participle | computing /kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | computes /kəmˈpjuːts/ |
Computed in a sentence
- Bronchography is rarely performed, as it has been made obsolete with improvements in computed tomography and bronchoscopy.From the entry bronchography
- The area is computed by latitudes and departures.From the entry departure
- Optimimal intraday electricity trading and water values for hydroassets are computed.2015, Simone Farinelli, Luisa Tibiletti, “Portfolio Management and Stochastic Optimization in Discrete Time: An Application to Intraday…. From the entry hydroassets
- Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn’t count.2000, Timothy Vick, How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett. From the entry Olympic diving
- In practice, the LOD score is computed over a wide range of values for 6.1998, Thomas D. Gelehrter, Francis S. Collins, David Ginsburg, Principles of Medical Genetics, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry lod
Meaning of compute
- verb To reckon, calculate.
- verb To make sense. (commonly used in mimicry of a science fictional robot and spoken in a robotic voice; most frequently in negative constructs).
- noun Computational processing power (number of operations per unit of time) or computational work (to be) done (number of operations).
Questions about the past tense of compute
- What is the past tense of compute?
- The past tense of compute is computed.
- What is the past participle of compute?
- The past participle of compute is computed.
- Is compute a regular or irregular verb?
- Compute is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: compute (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of compute.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/compute. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.