Usually means: Brain of any computing device.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. central processing unit: Merriam-Webster
  2. central processing unit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. central processing unit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. central processing unit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. central processing unit: Vocabulary.com
  6. central processing unit: Wiktionary
  7. central processing unit: Dictionary.com
  8. Central Processing Unit, Central processing unit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. central processing unit: Rhymezone
  10. central processing unit: FreeDictionary.org
  11. central processing unit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. central processing unit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. central processing unit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. central processing unit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. central processing unit: CCI Computer
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  5. central processing unit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. central processing unit: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Central Processing Unit: Extragalactic Astronomy

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Definitions from Wiktionary (central processing unit)

noun:  (computer hardware) The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions; attached directly to the memory.

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