a business engaged in processing agricultural products and
preparing them for market
someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
(computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; "the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached" Synonym(s):central processing unit, CPU, C.P.U., central processor, processor, mainframe
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: