processor

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
noun someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
noun (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

Recorded since 1909, from process + -or.

PLEASE ONLY INITIATE CHANGES WHICH HAVE BEEN TESTED ON BACKUP PROCESSORS. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
I bowed to the blade ritually, then to the NEC's head-high main processor. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
My chef is a skillful food processor who excels at pickling and preserving these various exhibits from the ocean. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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