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cpus

cpus is the abbreviation of campus.

cpus is the abbreviation of corpus.

Meaning of campus

Noun

campus (plural campuses or campusses or (nonstandard) campi)

  1. (often) The grounds or property of a school, college, university, business, church, or hospital, often understood to include buildings and other structures.
    • The campus is sixty hectares in size.
  2. An institution of higher education and its ambiance.
    • During the late 1960s, many an American campus was in a state of turmoil.

See all 4 meanings of campus

Meaning of corpus

Noun

corpus (plural corpora or corpuses or corpusses or (hypercorrect) corpi)

  1. A collection of written or spoken texts.
    • No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113
    1. (specifically) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
      • Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems...2007, Mihail Mihailov, Hannu Tommola, “Compiling Parallel Text Corpora: Towards Automation of Routine Procedures”, in Wolfgang Teubert, editor, Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography (Benjamins...
  2. A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
    • the corpus of the uterus
  3. (uncommon) A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.
    • About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world...1998, Dimitǎr Draganov, “New Coin Types of Hadrianopolis”, in Ulrike Peter, editor, Stephanos Nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag (Griechisches Münzwerk), Berlin: Akademie Verlag...
    Synonyms:
    collection, bod, body, bones, flesh, carcass, likam, quarrons, soma
  4. (archaic) The body of a man or animal.

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Noun capitalized: CPUs

CPUs

  1. (plural) plural of CPU

Questions about cpus

What is cpus the abbreviation of?
Cpus is the abbreviation of campus.
What part of speech is cpus?
Cpus is a noun.

Words near cpus in the dictionary

  1. CPTSD
  2. CPU
  3. CPU sharing
  4. CPU time
  5. CPU times
  6. cpus
  7. CPUSA
  8. CPV
  9. CPVC
  10. CPVPV
  11. CPVT

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cpus (page history and authors); CPUs (page history and authors); campus (page history and authors); corpus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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