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processor

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


NOUN
central processing unit
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Hiring showed glimmers of improvement, though, and the payroll processor ADP reported that private employers added 86,000 jobs last month.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The system uses a powerful commercial processor originally installed in the Ingenuity Helicopter Base Station.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

They tell clients in a note that Advanced Bionics’ new implant platform is another incremental headwind for the Australian hearing-tech provider, pointing out that processor launches have historically driven share gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The exchange took part in a trial run to tokenize securities that Wall Street firms keep at Depository Trust & Clearing, a leading trade processor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It used a 16-bit processor, which allowed double the processing capability of the 8-bit Nintendo, an early sign that the power of these machines would soar with each generation.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Google, for its cloud computing business, is also a major consumer of Nvidia processors, as are Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Buck was among the early pioneers who helped popularise the use of graphic processors beyond gaming applications.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

"Making all of those processors communicate efficiently while continuously evolving trillions of interacting pieces of information is itself an extraordinary feat of computer engineering."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Nvidia’s graphics processing units, high powered computer processors packed with billions of transistors, are the central component behind what many believe is the next industrial revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Word processors have dictionaries, but not common sense—at least not yet.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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