processor

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1909, from process + -orCategory:English terms suffixed with -or (agent noun)#PROCESSOR.

Pronunciation

Noun

processor (plural processors)Category:English lemmas#PROCESSORCategory:English nouns#PROCESSORCategory:English countable nouns#PROCESSORCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROCESSORCategory:Pages with entries#PROCESSORCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PROCESSOR

  1. A person or institution who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
    He is a loan processor with a bank.Category:English terms with usage examples#PROCESSOR
  2. A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
    The food processor shredded the vegetables.Category:English terms with usage examples#PROCESSOR
    • 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
      A smartphone is not the best camera, notebook, word processor, audio recorder, radio, MP3 player, map reader, pedometer and so on, but it is good enough replace numerous separate devices for most people most of the time.
      Category:English terms with quotations#PROCESSOR
  3. A central processing unit.
  4. A microprocessor.
    This computer has two processors, but only one keyboard.Category:English terms with usage examples#PROCESSOR

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References

Category:en:Computer hardware#PROCESSORCategory:en:People#PROCESSOR

Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from English#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch terms derived from English#PROCESSOR processor.

Pronunciation

Noun

processor m (plural processors or processoren, diminutive processortje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch nouns#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch nouns with lengthened vowel in the plural#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PROCESSORCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#PROCESSORCategory:Pages with entries#PROCESSORCategory:Pages with 2 entries#PROCESSOR

  1. (computingCategory:nl:Computing#PROCESSOR) a microprocessor

Synonyms

Category:Dutch lemmas Category:Dutch masculine nouns Category:Dutch nouns Category:Dutch nouns with lengthened vowel in the plural Category:Dutch nouns with plural in -en Category:Dutch nouns with plural in -s Category:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines Category:Dutch terms borrowed from English Category:Dutch terms derived from English Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation Category:English 3-syllable words Category:English countable nouns Category:English lemmas Category:English nouns Category:English terms suffixed with -or (agent noun) Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation Category:English terms with audio pronunciation Category:English terms with quotations Category:English terms with usage examples Category:Entries with translation boxes Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations Category:Pages with 2 entries Category:Pages with entries Category:Requests for review of Serbo-Croatian translations Category:Requests for translations into Bulgarian Category:Requests for translations into Esperanto Category:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛsɔr Category:Terms with Albanian translations Category:Terms with Arabic translations Category:Terms with Armenian translations Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations Category:Terms with Belarusian translations Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations Category:Terms with Catalan translations Category:Terms with Czech translations Category:Terms with Danish translations Category:Terms with Dutch translations Category:Terms with Estonian translations Category:Terms with Finnish translations Category:Terms with French translations Category:Terms with Georgian translations Category:Terms with German translations Category:Terms with Greek translations Category:Terms with Hindi translations Category:Terms with Hungarian translations Category:Terms with Indonesian translations Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations Category:Terms with Italian translations Category:Terms with Japanese translations Category:Terms with Kazakh translations Category:Terms with Korean translations Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations Category:Terms with Latvian translations Category:Terms with Lithuanian translations Category:Terms with Macedonian translations Category:Terms with Malay translations Category:Terms with Mandarin translations Category:Terms with Marathi translations Category:Terms with Mongolian translations Category:Terms with Māori translations Category:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Category:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Category:Terms with Persian translations Category:Terms with Polish translations Category:Terms with Portuguese translations Category:Terms with Romanian translations Category:Terms with Russian translations Category:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Category:Terms with Slovak translations Category:Terms with Slovene translations Category:Terms with Spanish translations Category:Terms with Swedish translations Category:Terms with Tajik translations Category:Terms with Turkish translations Category:Terms with Turkmen translations Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations Category:Terms with Urdu translations Category:Terms with Uzbek translations Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations Category:en:Computer hardware Category:en:People Category:nl:Computing