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processor
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.). 2 A device which processes, which changes something. (rfex) 3 A microprocessor.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
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.