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millicpu

millicpu noun: a unit of CPU time equivalent to a thousandth of the work that can be done by one CPU core.

Noun (1)

millicpu (plural millicpus)

  1. A unit of CPU time equivalent to a thousandth of the work that can be done by one CPU core.
    • An application with 500 millicpu will have reserved half of a CPU core's time.
    Synonyms:
    millicore

Noun (2) capitalized: milliCPU

milliCPU (plural milliCPUs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of millicpu.

Synonyms of millicpu

Forms of millicpu

pluralmillicpus
alternative formmilliCPU
pluralmilliCPUs

Origin of millicpu

From milli- + CPU.

Questions about millicpu

What does millicpu mean?
Millicpu means a unit of CPU time equivalent to a thousandth of the work that can be done by one CPU core.
What part of speech is millicpu?
Millicpu is a noun.
What is the plural of millicpu?
The plural of millicpu is millicpus.

Words near millicpu in the dictionary

  1. millicoin
  2. millicoins
  3. millicore
  4. millicoulomb
  5. millicoulombs
  6. millicpu
  7. milliCrab
  8. milliCrabs
  9. millicron
  10. millicrons
  11. millicurie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: millicpu (page history and authors); milliCPU (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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