processor

IPA: prˈɑsɛsɝ

A person or institution who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
A central processing unit.
A microprocessor.

Examples of "processor" in Sentences

A word processor is a word processor.
Paste it into a text processor or word processor.
This lightened the interrupt overhead to the processor.
This in turn reduces the heat dissipation of the processor.
Note that the main memory is inaccessible by all of the processors.
It is processor intensive to parse the entire text of the new page.
To give you an example, I used my word processor to make two charts.
The direction of amplification is varied by the hearing aid processor.
The construction of a message will be initiated in the conceptual processor.
A processor determines the type and the trajectory of the approaching target.
The AlphaStation XP1000 was the first workstation based on the 21264 processor.
You may not be able to write out an entire paper, but you certainly can outline one using the word processor on your mobile device.
In no time the hand-held calculator made the slide rule extinct, and the word processor sent the typewriter into irreversible decline.
Even though my word processor defaults to stories, that word is frowned upon except at bedtime: “The preferred word for a newspaper or magazine report is article.”
She had installed it for just this moment: When she'd be driving and need a way to keep working on her novel cause while she had a word processor on her phone she couldn't really type on her phone while she was driving.