WordNet
n. (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., processor, mainframe]
Usage examples of "central processor".
The Commissaire relayed it to the police headquarters central processor core.
This object was a complexity the size of a small house, shock-mounted on a web of girders that ran from it in every direction, and Huang Gun understood that it must house the central processor.
The central processor had already sent its notification of the discovery of a system of swarming badlife.
A great deal of my ability to maintain a personality is dependent on devoting a substantial percentage of my central processor to that personality.
Soon, back to the small office in the administration bungalow, back to signing slates allocating materiel to the various experiments, looking over the science team shifts in the five cramped labs, scheduling equipment and central processor time .
These data were properly transmitted to the central processor and should have resulted in an aborted sequence.
Based on the RoSur User's Guide, it was evident that at least two separate sensor systems should have sent error messages to the central processor in the robot surgeon.
By the time you finish we'll have a new central processor to handle the debugged program.
He had a digital latitude and longitude input rigged to his central processor, but he probably never considered the bomb wouldn't land in Washington, therefore he used the wrong software instruction, which made the program stop accepting position data after the Pentagon numbers appeared.
For a brief, irrational moment, he wondered if the Central Processor Pair on Bynaus had discovered his plan to draft a second Bynar pair and recalled Gold’.
He had then taken a phaser to the computer's central processor, though its destruction had given him only partial control of the ship.
His data terminal was presently receiving and recording an information transmission from the onplanet central processor, he explained, and Dot was almost at Perimurph.