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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
processor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
food processor
word processor
▪ Most reports are produced on a word processor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ The central processor then orders hypotheses, adds, deletes and modifies them.
▪ The old system was located in a single central processor on one floor of a building in earthquake-prone San Francisco.
▪ I've allocated him to Room 403, with instructions for all communications systems to be channelled through the central processor.
▪ This was because these systems employ passive memory inspected by a sequential central processor.
▪ The information may be text, numbers, colours and so on, or information for the computer central processor unit.
▪ Lexical access is not an autonomous process which a central processor can direct towards any part of the utterance.
digital
▪ Korg seem to have done the impossible and produced a totally digital processor with some absolutely authentic guitar sounds.
▪ The outfit comes with six speakers, including a subwoofer, a digital sound processor and a digital remote.
▪ It's certainly made me rethink my approach to digital processors and what I expect from them.
▪ It's the Intellifex 24 bit digital processor, with 80 user memory locations and a total of 99 factory presets.
faster
▪ Acquisition of More Resources Acquisition of a faster processor or larger memory would involve replacement of the mainframe.
▪ Demands for faster processors with larger memory to run newer applications software are increasing.
▪ My feelings have changed over the years as the system acquired first more memory and then bigger and faster processors.
▪ Cheaper memory, faster processors, and larger storage devices, come on to the market with increasing rapidity.
▪ This is Commodore's second-generation Amiga with a faster processor, twice as much internal memory and improved colour and sound capabilities.
high
▪ The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board.
large
▪ The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot. 6.
main
▪ This removes a lot of work from the main processor which no longer has to bother with keyboard scanning, buffering, etc.
▪ This has its own 80188 processor on-board, so the cache relieves the main processor of some of the donkey work.
▪ The speed of the main processor still has more effect on spreadsheet applications than the coprocessor.
▪ When the coprocessor has finished its' task it passes the result to the main processor.
▪ All very nice in theory but there are delays in passing information between coprocessor and main processor.
▪ The larger of the two chips fits in the main processor socket, the smaller in the coprocessor socket.
▪ The larger processor fits in the main processor slot the smaller in the coprocessor slot. 6.
▪ A possible exception to this is the main processor.
multiple
▪ Bourne says that the rewrite has now achieved linear performance increases across multiple processors running a database.
▪ The compilers will be capable of distributing loop-based code to multiple micro-vector processors as well as running the processors in parallel.
Multiple accumulator sets A way in which process switching may be speeded up is by the provision of multiple processor register Sets.
parallel
▪ This consists of in-house seminars on the theory and practice of using multi- and parallel processor machines.
▪ Programmers can access this memory from outside the parallel processor by using memory mapping.
▪ The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.
▪ Surprisingly though, in the normal configuration all of these parallel processors are linked by a standard Ethernet local area network.
single
▪ Hardware developer C-Cube of California, produced a single chip compression-decompression processor for video.
▪ Computers and the Brain A conventional computer is typically a single processor acting on explicitly programmed instructions.
▪ This might be a fixed length pipeline, or even a single sequential processor.
▪ Theoretical speed limits for a single processor are being approached.
■ NOUN
food
▪ Sieve the cottage cheese, or pur e in a food processor or liquidiser and beat in the egg and milk.
▪ Shred meat by hand or in short bursts in food processor.
▪ Scrape out the flesh with a teaspoon and put into a food processor or blender with the next four ingredients.
▪ Transfer to a blender or food processor and puree until smooth.
▪ Put the mixture into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. 3.
▪ Scoop flesh from potatoes into a food processor.
▪ Place the egg yolks in a food processor or blender and add the mustard and half of the vinegar.
▪ Place the almonds and lemon zest in the bowl of a food processor.
word
▪ Even in those days, the architects never had to consider the word processor, the microcomputer, the fax machine.
▪ Kids who need a word processor and Net access for school.
▪ She searched the desk for her tiny Nagasyu word processor, finding it under a book.
▪ Independent developers had written dozens of word processors, and even programs for obscure functions like cattle management and tarot card reading.
▪ Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.
▪ The subjects studied included how to use word processors, how to access Web sites and how to use e-mail.
▪ You are unlikely to find a word processor on your desk or fully computerised accounts, research and marketing departments.
▪ For some years I have been thinking of buying a word processor but have not yet taken the plunge.
■ VERB
add
▪ Crush 1 of the garlic cloves, add to processor, and puree mixture until smooth.
▪ Instructions recently added to Intel processors that are claimed to speed up some video and sound functions.
combine
▪ Inmos Transputers are unique because they combine a processor, communications links and memory on a single chip.
▪ Meanwhile, combine vinegars, mustard and pepper in a food processor and blend until combined.
▪ Instead the two modules operate in isolation with the results being combined by a control processor.
include
▪ Interleaf Publisher provides its own environment which includes a word processor, graphics package and so on.
run
▪ The compilers will be capable of distributing loop-based code to multiple micro-vector processors as well as running the processors in parallel.
▪ Most personal computers are used to run software like word processors, spreadsheets, data bases and so on.
support
▪ It now has a fully multi-threaded kernel and can support up to 30 processors.
use
▪ The new Nintendo system uses a 64-bit processor, while the Saturn and Playstation are 32-bit systems.
▪ They are taught to use word-processors and spreadsheets.
▪ Mrs Mesa and I used word processors.
▪ This consists of in-house seminars on the theory and practice of using multi- and parallel processor machines.
▪ Results can be printed in any form using the word processor.
▪ You can even use a word processor, as long as it will let you save the files as plain text.
▪ The subjects studied included how to use word processors, how to access Web sites and how to use e-mail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crossbar network connects the processors at 800Mbytes per second.
▪ Cargill is an international processor and distributor and agricultural and food products.
▪ First, I can't get the word processor, or anything else, to print correctly.
▪ Its processors include 133 -, 150-and 160-megahertz chips.
▪ Place ancho chilies and 1 cup of the cooking liquid in a blender or food processor and puree.
▪ Think of the impact of the revolutionary Cuisinart food processor introduced in this country in 1973 and now a household staple.
▪ Word processor packages can accept drawings, bitmaps, spreadsheet data and so on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
processor

1909, agent noun in Latin form from process (v.). Data processor is from 1957; word processor is from 1973; food processor in the kitchen appliance sense also is from 1973.

Wiktionary
processor

n. 1 A person who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.). 2 A device which processes, which changes something. (rfex) 3 A microprocessor.

WordNet
processor
  1. n. a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market

  2. someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)

  3. (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached [syn: central processing unit, CPU, C.P.U., central processor, mainframe]

Wikipedia
Processor

Processor, processor unit or processing unit may refer to:

Processor (computing)

In computing, a processor is an electronic circuit which performs operations on some external data source, usually memory or some other data stream. The term is frequently used to refer to the Central processing unit in a system, but typical computer systems (especially SoCs) combine a number of specialised "processors".

Usage examples of "processor".

In here, his body motionless, his affinity expanding his consciousness through bitek processors and incorporated brains, his mentality was raised by an order of magnitude.

She stared at the portable lab and X-ray machine, their related processors, and the latest in alloplastic and autogenous grafting materials in refrigerated cases.

Remove the shrimp paste with a slotted spoon to a mortar, blender, or food processor.

Remove the apricots, reserving the soaking liquid, to a food processor or blender, add the coriander, reserving a few leaves for garnish, and blend until smooth.

Add the cumin to a food processor or blender with all the remaining marinade ingredients except the oil.

Allow to cook until lightly browned, then remove to a food processor, blender, or heavy mortar, and blend with the dried shrimp to a smooth paste.

Puree this mixture in a food processor or blender, or run it through a food mill.

Put a cup of the mixture in a food processor or blender with the ginger and its syrup and process until the ginger is in small chunks.

Each of these spherical computers was linked to its four neighbors, north-east-southwest, by a bundle of flexible pushrods running down a flexible, evacuated buckytube, so that the page as a whole constituted a parallel computer made up of about a billion separate processors.

He was an unsurpassed expert on wind-tunnel computer simulations, as performed by the Hillis Massively Parallel Processor.

It used the thought routines it had developed to control its own processors, running the sequences through them, modifying them to handle the new mathematical arrangements.

All that was left to do was to add the morphic plasma in which the processor meat would be suspended.

Later he would datavise the files into a processor block, running a comparison with the huge catalogue of recidivist names, facial images, and in some cases DNA prints which the ESA had trawled from right across the Confederation.

Gentle lambent nerve impulses from the receptor cells now flowed along the strand to a more standard semiorganic processor that Renne carried in her jacket pocket.

REC was put online with all sorts of parsing and vector processors, superintelligent neural nets and multiple optimizers.