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Definition: Processor |
ProcessorNoun1. A business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market. 2. Someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.). 3. (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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "processor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Processor central processing unit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Occupations | Tends processing (washing, bleaching, and drying) section of machine that extrudes synthetic fiber filaments: Threads continuous filaments through guides and around rollers that carry product through machine, apply washing and bleaching solutions, and dry filaments prior to winding, twisting, or cutting into staple lengths. Observes gauges and moves controls to start and regulate flow of washing and bleaching solutions, applied to moving filament through openings in rollers, and to maintain temperature of drying rollers according to plant standards. Repairs breaks in filaments by tying ends together. In nylon plants, may set temperature of rolls that heat and stretch filaments to impart strength and fuse filaments into tow. May doff bobbins of yarn at end of windup cycle and reset clock device that regulates speed of filament travel according to diameter of bobbin. (references) |
| Tends machine that untwists and extracts water or chemicals from knit tubing after bleaching, washing, and dyeing, and applies finish to tubing preparatory to drying: Positions containers of wet knit tubing on turntable of machine. Turns thumbscrews to adjust width of spreader, according to specifications. Threads tubing through tension rollers and around spreader, and ties end of tubing to $T3leader.$T1 Turns handwheel to regulate pressure on squeeze rollers. Turns valve to admit finishing solution into trough of machine. Starts machine and observes operation to detect twists in knit tubing. Revolves turntable from which tubing is fed to untwist tubing. Measures width of tubing with hand rule to verify conformance to standards. Doffs tubing from $T3swing-folding attachment.$T1 May mix finishing solution, following formula. (references) | |
Physics | An automated device which makes visible the latent image on a film, by transporting it in a controlled manner through specialised sections where developing, fixing, washing and drying of the film occur. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The central processing unit (CPU) is the part of a computer that interprets and carries out the instructions contained in the software. In most CPUs, this task is divided between a control unit that directs program flow and one or more execution units that perform operations on data. Almost always, a collection of registers is included to hold operands and intermediate results.
The term CPU is often used vaguely to include other centrally important parts of a computer such as caches and input/output controllers, especially in computers with modern microprocessor chips that include several of these functions in one physical integrated circuit.
Manufacturers and retailers of desktop computers often erroneously describe the computer case and its contents as the CPU which is misleading.
A family of CPU designs is often referred to as a CPU architecture.
Notable CPU architectures include:
Emerging new CPU architectures include:
- Intel's x86 architecture
- Zilog's architecture
- IBM's System/360 architecture
- DEC's PDP-11 architecture, and its successor, the VAX architecture
- Motorola's 68000 architecture
- Sun Microsystems's SPARC architecture
- MIPS Computer Systems Inc's MIPS architecture
- HP's PA-RISC architecture
- DEC's Alpha architecture
- The AIM Alliance's PowerPC architecture
- DEC and Acorn ARM's StrongARM architecture
- SuperH's SuperH architecture
- UNIVAC 1100/2200 series architecture (currently supported by Unisys ClearPath IX computers)
- 1750A, the U.S.'s military standard computer.
- AP-101, the space shuttle's computer
Historically important CPUs have been:
- Intel's Itanium architecture
- AMD's x86-64 architecture
The above processor architectures could also be characterized by their CPU design like register size. Today most desktop computers have 32-bit processors; 64-bit processors are being phased in. Smaller devices like mobile phones, PDAs, or portable video game devices may have 16 or 8-bit processors.
- EDSAC- the first stored-program computer
- Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon flights
See also
- arithmetic and logical unit
- BIOS
- computer engineering
- CPU design
- CPU locking
- CPU power consumption
- floating point unit
- front side bus
- microcode
- motherboard
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Central processing unit."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| PR | English | Processor | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ProcessorSynonyms: central processing unit (n), central processor (n), mainframe (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: limbering (food & agriculture). |
Crosswords: Processor |
| English words defined with "processor": data processing ♦ innovate, introduce ♦ spell-checker, spelling checker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "processor": Algorithmic Processor Description Language, array processor, Array Processor Assembly Language ♦ Command Control Processor, Cornell List Processor ♦ Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program, front-end processor ♦ Instruction Set Processor, Interface Message Processor, Interpretive Menu Processor ♦ master processor, MICROFILM PROCESSOR ♦ Order Code Processor ♦ parallel processor, pipeline processor, pipelined processor, Processor Direct Slot, processor farm, PROCESSOR HELPER, processor time, Programmed Data Processor ♦ Scalable Processor ARChitecture, Single Edge Processor Package ♦ vector processor ♦ x86 processor socket. (references) |
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Screenplays | You'll be the most unpopular robot fighter since Sargeant Feces Processor! (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | FSIS inspector checks the meat processor. . Credit: USDA. |
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| "Mainboard" by Igor Kasalovic Commentary: "Mainboard & processor size: 1024*768." | "Macintosh" by Carl Dwyer Commentary: "Inside photo of processor." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The external speech processor cannot be made MRI compatible and should not be taken into the scanner. (references) | |
A final design issue is the means by which the stimulus information is passed through the skin from the speech processor to the electrodes. (references) | ||
Percutaneous connectors offer many research and clinical advantages, including MRI compatibility, ease of electrode testing, and processor upgrading, and they should not be abandoned. (references) | ||
Business | The leading importer, Benvenuto-La Compagnola SA, is a food processor, with a wide range of canned and bottled products. (references) | |
To decide what computer to buy, Kenyan customers assess a machine's memory, storage, processor speed, size of the monitor, included options, expandability and warranty. (references) | ||
The average selling price for a Pentium I (166 MHz processor) is Pak Rupees 11,000 (US$ 212.4). Other than freight and insurance costs, importers are required to pay a 6 percent income tax on all imports of computers and peripherals. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uzbekistan | The most popular processor is Celeron-600 MHz. The price for Pentium III-based computers depending on options varies from USD 800 to USD 2, 500. AMD processors still cannot compete price-wise with Intel products. (references) |
Netherlands | The Netherlands is a major importer, processor and re-exporter of orange juice. (references) | |
Jamaica | In the first case, a soybean processor and the governmet have as yet been unable to agree on a mutually satisfactory settlement. (references) | |
Trade | Jamaica | Each package of pre-packaged goods should be labeled in English and should include the proper name of the product, an accurate declaration of the contents, an accurate description of the ingredients, a datemark or date of minimum durability as well as the name and identifiable business address of the processor, manufacturer, packer, importer or distributor and the country of origin. (references) |
Brazil | It is assessed at the point of sale by the manufacturer or processor in the case of domestically produced goods, and at the point of customs clearance in the case of imports. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Processor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Processor" is used about 1,493 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,493 | 5,449 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "processor": algorithmic Processor Description Language ♦ applications processor ♦ array processor ♦ array Processor Assembly Language ♦ central processor ♦ co processor ♦ command Control Processor ♦ continuous processor ♦ Cornell List Processor ♦ data processor ♦ digital light processor technology ♦ digital signal processor ♦ external processor loop ♦ film processor ♦ food processor ♦ instruction Set Processor ♦ interface Message Processor ♦ interpretive Menu Processor ♦ massively parallel processor ♦ master processor ♦ math processor ♦ Motorola cellular advanced processor bus ♦ multipoint processor ♦ natural language processor ♦ order Code Processor ♦ parallel processor ♦ peripheral processor ♦ PHP: Hypertext Processor ♦ pipeline processor ♦ pipelined processor ♦ processor Direct Slot ♦ processor farm ♦ processor speed ♦ processor time ♦ programmed Data Processor ♦ scalable Processor ARChitecture ♦ single Edge Processor Package ♦ switch control processor ♦ terminal interface message processor ♦ terminal interface processor ♦ vector processor ♦ word processor ♦ x86 processor socket. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "processor": processor-based, processor-controlled, processor-independent, processor-intensive, Processor-memory-switch, Processor-sparc, processor-specific, Processor-taligent. | |
Ending with "processor": co-processor, dual-processor, eight-processor, four-processor, micro-processor, multi-processor, two-processor, uni-processor, word-processor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "processor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pajisje përpunuese ushqimesh (food processor), përpunues teksti (word processor). (various references) | |
Arabic | المعالج للمعلومات. (various references) | |
Chinese | 處理器 , 加工者. (various references) | |
Danish | processor, fremkaldemaskine, forarbejdningsvirksomhed (processing activities). (various references) | |
Dutch | processor, verwerker. (various references) | |
Finnish | prosessori, suoritin. (various references) | |
French | processeur. (various references) | |
German | Prozessor (processing unit). (various references) | |
Greek | επεξεργαστής. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבד מזון (food processor), מעבד תמלילים (word processor), תמלילן (lyricist, word processor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | processzor, műveleti szerv, időréscsatoló, feldolgozóegység, feldolgozó (adapter). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengolah. (various references) | |
Italian | processore, processor, unità di elaborazione (tabulating unit), trasformatore (transformer), sviluppatrice di pellicole radiografiche (film processor), sviluppatrice (film processor). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | プロセス制御 (plot, plotter, process control, processing, product, product ad, product design, product life cycle, product manager, product planning, product protection, production, production control, production team, products, propjet, protect, protected, protection, protector, protein, protestant, Protestantism), 演算機 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | プロセッサー , プロセッサ , えんざんき. (various references) | |
Korean | 가공업자. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocessorpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | processador. (various references) | |
Russian | процессор (c.p.u.). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | procesor. (various references) | |
Spanish | procesador (computer processing unit). (various references) | |
Swedish | behandlare. (various references) | |
Turkish | tamamlayıcı (adjunct, collateral, complement, complemental, complementary, component, expletive, follow up, integral, integrant, modifier, supplement, supplemental, supplementary), işleyici, işlemci (drawer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "processor": processors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "processor": coprocessor, microprocessor, multiprocessor, preprocessor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "processor": coprocessors, microprocessors, multiprocessors, preprocessors. (additional references) | |
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"Processor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: precussor, proccesor, proccessor, proceso, procesor, processer, Prodesco, prosessor, Protessor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "processor" (pronounced prÄ"se'ser) |
| 7 | p r Ä" s e' s er | multiprocessor. |
| 4 | -s e' s er | predecessor. |
| 3 | -e' s er | hairdresser. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: scoopers. | |
-2 letters: coopers, corpses, crosser, pressor, process, prosers, recross, roosers, roscoes, scooper, scorers, scroops. | |
-3 letters: cooers, cooper, copers, copses, corers, corpse, corses, crores, crosse, poorer, porose, posers, proser, proses, prosos, repros, rooser, rooses, ropers, roscoe, scoops, scopes, scorer, scores, scroop, sopors, spoors, spores. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cooer, coops, coper, copes, copse, corer, cores, corps, corse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: compressor, processors, prosectors. | |
+2 letters: carpospores, compressors, coprisoners, coprocessor, corepressor, corresponds, microspores, overprocess, prosecutors, prospectors. | |
+3 letters: arthroscopes, compromisers, coprocessors, corepressors, crapshooters, overcompress, preprocessor, preschoolers. | |
+4 letters: anchorpersons, arthroscopies, chromospheres, corporealness, corresponsive, cosmographers, overprocessed, overprocesses, preprocessors, urethroscopes. | |
+5 letters: cochairpersons, congressperson, coprosperities, correspondents, microprocessor, multiprocessor, overcompressed, overcompresses, overprocessing, overscrupulous, protectorships, retrospections, scleroproteins, sporotrichoses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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