posit

plural posits

1. Something that is posited; a postulate.
2. abbreviationaeronauticsAbbreviation of position.
3. computingA number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.

   With their new hardware implementation, which was synthesized in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the Complutense team was able to compare computations done using 32-bit floats and 32-bit posits side by side.

   2022 September 25, Dina Genkina, “Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI”, in IEEE Spectrum, New York, N.Y.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024

present singular third person posits · participle present positing · participle past posited · past posited

1. To assume the existence of; to postulate.

   some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.

   1908, ARISTOTLE, translated by W. D. Ross, Metaphysics, Book 1, Part 5

2. To propose for consideration or study; to suggest.

   Ray's natural theology posited that God was responsible for the near-perfect match between an animal and its environment and encouraged readers to seek evidence for God through the study of nature.

   2023, Tim Birkhead, Birds and Us, Penguin Books, page 193

3. To put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.

   Among many Indians, however, an exonormative view, which even today posits British English as the target model, appears to be firmly in place.

   2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 113