processing power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprocessingandpower
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processing
noun[U]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses.ɪŋ/us/ˈprɑː.ses.ɪŋ/
the act of dealing with documents or people in an ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofprocessingandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprocessing power
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All this eats a lot ofprocessingpower!
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Given theprocessingpowerof current personal computers, this should not in general be problematic.
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This system has significantly increased theprocessingpowerand the overall system bandwidth.
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In order to implement 64 filters on 16 processors, optimisation of the availableprocessingpowerwas required.
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The use of parallel or quantum computation has also been suggested to speed up theprocessingpower.
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And what enhances memory is information that an individual finds salient, and to which more informationprocessingpoweris invested.
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Distributed computing, however, links smaller units together so that they can shareprocessingpowerin a pool of sorts.
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The central message of these disciplines is that quantum mechanics provides a great - sometimes exponential - improvement in the informationprocessingpowerof a physical system.
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These characteristics result from the mind's nontrivial reorganization of sensory input and are constrained by the limitedprocessingpowerof the brain.
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Rather, the entire brain may grow in response to evolutionary demand for greaterprocessingpower, producing adjunct growth in many individual parts of the brain.
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The new road advanced very quickly,processingpowerwas always greater and the product could now be seen as a long-time perspective.
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At the time, it was not hard to predict that computerprocessingpowerand storage capacity would carry on doubling each year.
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On the contrary, one can imagine the opposite view: a modest increase in the number of otherwise normal minicolumns could produce a modest improvement in informationprocessingpower.
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In this case, as the use of a complex unit is expensive, the installedprocessingpowercannot be overestimated and thus scalability will be very limited.
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As a final note, due to the low computational overhead of the culling algorithm, almost all of theprocessingpoweris consumed by objective function evaluations.
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Expansion of cerebral cortex and increase in itsprocessingpoweracross evolution up to humans is due to an increase in the number of prenatally generated minicolumns.
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The discussed techniques share the underlying assumption that computer-mediated communication should rely as much as possible on sensory languages using the perceptualprocessingpowerof the brain without learning.
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For example, a recovery from a failure in a controller may be solved using availableprocessingpower of a second fully operational controller or other node with adequate capabilities.
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These costs may be observed in direct consumption of resources, such as bandwidth orprocessingpower, or indirectly because of inefficiencies or opportunities missed while in an intermediate state.
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Also, once the receiving element has acknowledged receipt of a problem, there seems little point in repeating the message frequently, consumingprocessingpowerthat might be needed to provide assistance.
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Theprocessingpowerof personal computers can be provided in central computer systems sitting within communications networks.
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We see asymptotic curves, talking about billions of dollars of potential commerce,processingpower, or take-up of the web.
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Neural network research slowed until computers achieved greaterprocessingpower.
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As a result,processingpoweroften goes unused.
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