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Pentiums

Pentiums is the plural of Pentium.

Meaning of Pentium

Noun

Pentium (plural Pentiums)

  1. A CPU chip designed and manufactured by Intel, successor to the 486 chip, introduced in 1993.
    • Given the usual Pentium-level processors now commonly available and the amount of memory these systems typically contain, the program we have developed can deal (optimally) with object set sizes in the lower teen’s, but even this requires the capability of Fortran90 to allocate very large arrays...1997, Lawrence Hubert, Phipps Arabie, Jacqueline Meulman, “Hierarchical clustering and the construction of (optimal) ultrametrics using Lₚ-norms”, in Yadolah Dodge, editor, L₁-Statistical Procedures...
  2. A computer having a Pentium processor.

Questions about Pentiums

What is Pentiums the plural of?
Pentiums is the plural of Pentium.

Words near Pentiums in the dictionary

  1. pentiti
  2. pentito
  3. pentitol
  4. pentitols
  5. Pentium
  6. Pentiums
  7. Pentlach
  8. Pentland
  9. Pentland Firth
  10. Pentland Hills
  11. pentlandite

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