HOW TO PRONOUNCE
processor
/ˈpɹɑˌsɛsɚ/
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The c has an s sound.
The first syllable has the main stress here. A smaller beat follows, then a light r-colored vowel closes the word.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The computer has a faster processor.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does processor mean?
noun
- A person or institution who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
- A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
- A central processing unit.
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noun
- A microprocessor.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpɹɑˌsɛsɚ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Most literature (as opposed to scientific publications, for example), is typographically simple and can be rendered beautifully into type without encoding it into proprietary word processor file formats or impenetrable markup languages.
I'd also try Royal Chantenay (PEA), Fakkel Mix (TSC), Stokes "Processor" types, and Topweight (ABL).
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To "display" a work means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or processor, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.
The evil, or superabundant, humors were discharged and this view of a special materies morbi, to be got rid of by a natural processor a crisis, dominated pathology until quite recently.