ALL meanings of number crunching
num·ber crunch
N n - noun number crunching a person or thing that performs a great many numerical calculations, as a financial analyst, statistician, computer, or computer program. 1
- noun Definition of number crunching in Technology (application, jargon) Computations of a numerical nature, especially those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing Fortrash is good for. This term is in widespread informal use outside hackerdom and even in mainstream slang, but has additional hackish connotations: namely, that the computations are mindless and involve massive use of brute force. This is not always evil, especially if it involves ray tracing or fractals or some other use that makes pretty pictures, especially if such pictures can be used as wallpaper. See also crunch. 1
- uncountable noun number crunching If you refer to number crunching, you mean activities or processes concerned with numbers or mathematical calculation, for example in finance, statistics, or computing. 0
- noun number crunching the large-scale processing of numerical data 0