Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

central processing unit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: cen-tral pro-cess-ing u-nit
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.

Inflected Forms

central processing units (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

graphics processing unit

Synonyms

CPU c.p.u. central processor processor mainframe

Questions

What does central processing unit mean?: The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.

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