central processing unit (plural central processing units)
- (computer hardware) The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions; attached directly to the memory.
- Synonym: CPU
- Coordinate term: graphics processing unit
part of a computer
- Arabic: وحدَة المعالجَة المَرْكَزِيَّة f
- Bulgarian: центра́лен проце́сор m (centrálen procésor)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 中央處理器/中央处理器 (zung1 joeng1 cyu2 lei5 hei3), 中央處理單元/中央处理单元 (zung1 joeng1 cyu2 lei5 daan1 jyun4), 中央處理機/中央处理机 (zung1 joeng1 cyu2 lei5 gei1)
- Mandarin: 中央處理器/中央处理器 (zhōngyāng chǔlǐqì), 中央處理單元/中央处理单元 (zhōngyāng chǔlǐ dānyuán), 中央處理機/中央处理机 (zh) (zhōngyāng chǔlǐjī)
- Dutch: centrale verwerkingseenheid
- Esperanto: ĉeforgano, ĉefprocesoro, centra aparato, ĉefprocezilo
- Finnish: keskussuoritin (fi), suoritin (fi), prosessori (fi)
- French: unité centrale de traitement f, unité centrale (fr) f, processeur central m
- Galician: unidade central de procesamento
- German: Hauptprozessor m, CPU (de) f
- Hungarian: processzor központi feldolgozóegység
- Icelandic: miðverk n
- Indonesian: unit pengolah pusat
- Irish: aonad lárnach próiseála m, láraonad próiseála m
- Italian: unità centrale di elaborazione
- Japanese: 中央処理装置 (ちゅうおうしょりそうち, chūō shori sōchi), 中央演算処理装置 (ちゅうおうえんざんしょりそうち, chūō enzan shori sōchi)
- Korean: 중앙 처리 장치(中央處理裝置) (jung'ang cheori jangchi)
- Macedonian: процесор (mk) m (procesor)
- Malayalam: സെൻട്രൽ പ്രൊസസിങ് യൂണിറ്റ് (seṉṭral prosasiṅŭ yūṇiṟṟŭ)
- Polish: procesor (pl) m
- Portuguese: unidade central de processamento (pt) f
- Russian: центра́льный проце́ссор m (centrálʹnyj procéssor), центра́льное проце́ссорное устро́йство n (centrálʹnoje procéssornoje ustrójstvo), ЦПУ (ru) n (CPU)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: про̀цесор
- Roman: pròcesor (sh) m, centralna jedinica f
- Spanish: unidad central de procesamiento f
- Swahili: kitengo kikuu cha uchakataji
- Swedish: centralprocessor
- Tamil: மையச் செயற்பகுதி (maiyac ceyaṟpakuti)
- Thai: หน่วยประมวลผลกลาง (nùay bpràmuan pŏn glaang)
- Turkish: merkezi işlem birimi
- Ukrainian: центра́льний проце́сор m (centrálʹnyj procésor)
- Vietnamese: bộ xử lí trung tâm
|