Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that processes, especially an apparatus for preparing, treating, or converting material.
- noun A computer.
- noun A central processing unit.
- noun A program that translates another program or a data file into a form acceptable by the computer being used.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
- noun A
device whichprocesses , which changes something. - noun A
computer , especially as short for amicroprocessor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
- noun a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
- noun someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Suren Ramasubbu: Building Early Road Scholars: Giving Your Kids the Drive to Succeed Suren Ramasubbu 2011
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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.
Suren Ramasubbu: Building Early Road Scholars: Giving Your Kids the Drive to Succeed Suren Ramasubbu 2011
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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.
Suren Ramasubbu: Building Early Road Scholars: Giving Your Kids the Drive to Succeed Suren Ramasubbu 2011
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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.
And So It Begins Luovien Innoitus 2011
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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.
Suren Ramasubbu: Building Early Road Scholars: Giving Your Kids the Drive to Succeed Suren Ramasubbu 2011
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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.
Suren Ramasubbu: Building Early Road Scholars: Giving Your Kids the Drive to Succeed Suren Ramasubbu 2011
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In no time the hand-held calculator made the slide rule extinct, and the word processor sent the typewriter into irreversible decline.
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To give you an example, I used my word processor to make two charts.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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To give you an example, I used my word processor to make two charts.
Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006
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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.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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