processorn.
/ˈprəʊsɛsə/, U.S. /ˈprɑˌsɛsər/ A person who or thing which performs a process or processes something; spec. (a) a central processing unit of a computer; (b) a food processor.data, food, word processor: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun] > for performing process
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun]
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?1893 H. I. Blits Methods canning Fruits & Veg. (new ed.) 511 The results obtained by many ladies present who had successfully tried his methods with the aid of the Lightning Fruit Processor and Cooker were very flattering.
1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane ii. 10 Her tragic face..was already being ‘blocked’ for the night's press in many a rushing ‘processor's’ den.
1934 Planning 1 xx. 5 Various industries handling agricultural products between the first processor and the consumer have recently been turned over to the N R A.
1948 Times 2 Mar. 2/3 [The] film processor..was sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment.
1977 New Yorker 29 Aug. 62/2 Any program that runs on the system can access any information physically accessible to the (central) processor.
1984 J. Partridge One Touch Photogr. 42 (caption) Fluorescent light will give your pictures a green cast, but on colour prints this can be improved by the processor.
1989 Grattan Direct Catal. Spring–Summer 640/1 Moulinex ‘Masterchef 65’ processor with detachable blender/liquidiser goblet.
2005 Computer Weekly 19 July 6/4 It [sc. a solid-state disc] uses Ram memory boards and its own processor to manage data storage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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