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processor

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(computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing

a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market

someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)

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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination. Walter Murch

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. Isaac Asimov

Both birds and crocs have the identical plan to their specialized gizzard apparatus, and this type of internal food processor is absent in the other "reptiles" Robert T. Bakker

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor. Stephen King

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits. Temple Grandin

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room. Colm Tóibín

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