noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.
2. 2
   (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing wordnet

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c.p.u.central processorcpumainframeprocessor