computes
Saykuhm-PYOOTS/kəmˈpjuts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of compute.
The software computes the shortest route between two cities.
Each sensor computes its position relative to the satellites overhead.
Note
The -s form belongs to the verb alone. The noun compute, meaning processing power, is uncountable and takes no plural, so computes never means 'amounts of computing power'. Most uses are transitive, with something being reckoned as the object: a route, a total, a position. The informal 'make sense' meaning lives mostly in negatives, where do-support takes the base form: it does not compute, rather than computes.
computes is a form of compute
compute, verb: To work out a value or result through calculation or reckoning. Full entry
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- compute → computes: add -s
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