Meaning

1 senses
  1. The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.

    Hauptprozessor, CPU

    центра́льный проце́ссорcentrálʹnyj procéssor, центра́льное проце́ссорное устро́йствоcentrálʹnoje procéssornoje ustrójstvo, ЦПУCPU

    центра́льний проце́сорcentrálʹnyj procésor

More definitions
  • (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

Translations

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Forms

plural: central processing units

Synonyms

5 synonyms
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