laskennallisilla

Laskennallisilla is a Finnish adjective form used to describe things related to computation. It is the plural adessive form of laskennallinen and is commonly attached to plural nouns to express instrument or means—roughly translating to “with computational” or “by computational” in English. For example, laskennallisilla menetelmillä means with computational methods, and laskennallisilla malleilla means with computational models.

Etymology and usage context: The word is derived from laskenta, meaning calculation, combined with the suffix -llinen, which forms adjectives indicating a characteristic. The term has become common in modern Finnish across fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science to distinguish approaches that rely on computer-based calculations and numerical algorithms from analytical or experimental methods.

Applications and examples: In practice, laskennallinen describes research, methods, or models that depend on computation. Typical phrases include laskennallinen fysiikka (computational physics), laskennallinen kemia (computational chemistry), and laskennallinen mallintaminen (computational modeling). The plural adessive form laskennallisilla appears whenever the modified noun is plural or used in a representative, instrumental sense, as in laskennallisilla menetelmillä or laskennallisilla malleilla.

Relation to other terms: Laskennallinen contrasts with analytical (analyyttinen) approaches and with experimental (kokemuksellinen) methods. In Finnish-language science communication, laskennallinen tiede (computational science) and laskennallinen tutkimus (computational research) are common umbrella terms for programmatic simulation and numerical analysis.

See also: laskennallinen tiede, laskennallinen fysiikka, laskennallinen kemia, laskennallinen biologia, laskennallinen optimointi.