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processor

[pros-es-er, proh-ses-] / ˈprɒs ɛs ər, ˈproʊ sɛs- /


NOUN
central processing unit
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Camera and audio data is processed in a secure container on the processor, so neither Apple nor apps can access it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The project has received 40 million processor hours on the UK's national supercomputers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

They also challenged the processor with videos produced using Google's VEO-3 model.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hormel Foods has agreed to acquire Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned value-added chicken processor, for about $1.055 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

I pushed a food processor to the side.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Its suppliers receive orders for processors, networking, power systems and cooling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Taiwan is home to hardware production giants TSMC, which turns Nvidia's cutting-edge designs into silicon components, and Foxconn, which assembles the processors to make data centre servers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

One of the investment bank’s analysts tells clients in a note that the Australian company’s reallocation of pooled processors to a new contracts highlights management’s focus on returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The processors can be “bought in the secondary market at a spot price, and are also made by Chinese companies,” Luria noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

One reason is they make less money than supermarkets, wholesalers, and food processors.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan


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