Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

graphics processing unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables: graph-ic-s pro-cess-ing u-nit
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

Inflected Forms

graphics processing units (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

central processing unit dGPU iGPU

Synonyms

GPU

Questions

What does graphics processing unit mean?: A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.

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