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. 1. a computer program that performs word processing

   2. a computer system designed for word processing

Word History and Origins

Origin of word processor¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

For all that bravado, though, Wang was unable to keep pace with rivals such as Apple and Dell, which provided ever-improving word processors and a whole lot more.

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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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