Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mainframe"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mainframe
n 1: a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying
a special air-conditioned room [syn: {mainframe computer}]
2: (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 [syn: {central processing
unit}, {CPU}, {C.P.U.}, {central processor}, {processor}]
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