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micro-processor

micro-processor is the alternative form of microprocessor.

Meaning of microprocessor

Noun

microprocessor (plural microprocessors)

  1. The entire CPU of a computer on a single integrated circuit (chip).
    • When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47

Forms of micro-processor

pluralmicro-processors

Questions about micro-processor

What is micro-processor the alternative form of?
Micro-processor is the alternative form of microprocessor.

Words near micro-processor in the dictionary

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  2. micro-organizational
  3. micro-penised
  4. micro-poem
  5. micro-poems
  6. micro-processor
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  10. micro-regions
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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-processor (page history and authors); microprocessor (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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