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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

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 team found that the processor could also become more capable by increasing the physical depth of its passive optical decoder without substantially increasing energy use or inference latency.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Massive volumes of video could initially pass through the parallel optical processor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

But if the Stormbreakers were based on the round processor there couldn’t possibly be any need for such extremes—and anyway, this was like nothing Alex had ever seen before.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

The galaxy of deals has helped keep demand running high for Nvidia's processors, which power vast data centers around the world and are the central ingredient of the AI revolution.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

But they also said that Lumentum is a key customer of Marvell’s digital signal processors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

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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