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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
processor
noun
1: a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
2: someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
3: (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached [syn: {central processing unit}, {CPU}, {C.P.U.}, {central processor}, {mainframe}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
processor {central processing unit}
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