Processor

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  processor
       n 1: 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 [syn: {central processing
          unit}, {CPU}, {C.P.U.}, {central processor}, {mainframe}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  processor
       
          {central processing unit}