From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Computersprocessorpro‧ces‧sor /ˈprəʊsesə $ ˈprɑːsesər/●くろまる○しろまる○しろまる noun [countable]1TDthe central part of a computer that deals with the commands and information it is givenSYN central processing unit2a machine or person that processes food or other materials before they are sold or usedUS tuna processors →food processorExamples from the Corpusprocessor• Think of the impact of the revolutionary Cuisinart food processorintroduced in this country in 1973 and now a householdstaple.• Place ancho chilies and 1 cup of the cookingliquid in a blender or food processor and puree.• Cargill is an internationalprocessor and distributor and agricultural and food products.• Its processors include 133 -, 150-and 160-megahertzchips.• A crossbarnetworkconnects the processors at 800Mbytes per second.• First, I can't get the wordprocessor, or anything else, to print correctly.• Word processorpackages can acceptdrawings, bitmaps, spreadsheet data and so on.From Longman Business Dictionaryprocessorpro‧ces‧sor /ˈprəʊsesəˈprɑːsesər/ noun [countable]1COMPUTING the central part of a computer that does the calculations on the information put into itan Intel Pentium III processorsystems that need a big expensive central processor to work → see alsocentral processing unit, word processor2a company that preparessubstances, especially food, for sale or as part of another productGeorgia officials blocked sales by an Atlanta milk processor after detecting contamination in its milk.