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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

In experiments using visible light, the processor examined 15 Celeb-DF videos simultaneously during each optical pass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hormel Foods HRL -0.60%decrease; down pointing triangle has struck a deal to buy Brakebush Brothers, a family-owned value-added processor of chicken products, for about $1.055 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

While Uncle Vernon made furious telephone calls to the post office and the dairy trying to find someone to complain to, Aunt Petunia shredded the letters in her food processor.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

This is especially important for the development of large quantum processors.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

But wait — he has no soul, just wires, processors, fluid and whatnot, plus a set of AI personas guiding his interactions with the human world.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Nasdaq-listed CoreWeave—which, like Firmus, owns processors as well as the buildings that house them—is valued at about US$37 billion and has more than 50 centers in operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Some other Japanese industries are organized very differently from the food processors.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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