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word processor

noun

  1. a computer program or computer system designed for word processing.
  2. a person who performs word processing.


word processor

noun

    1. a computer program that performs word processing
    2. a computer system designed for word processing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of word processor1

First recorded in 1975–80
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“Those who call carbon a pollutant might want to lay down their word processor,” Hawken writes.

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“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

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In this complex, the prime editor works like a "word processor," accurately replacing genomic information.

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As a child in the 1980s, his family owned a word processor with a screen that allowed one to view and edit just a couple lines of writing at a time.

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The first thing they invented like that, that I'm aware of, that you would have in your house, was called a word processor.

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