| Subject | English | Icelandic |
| comp., MS | central processing unit | örgjörvi (The computational and control unit of a computer. The CPU is the device that interprets and executes instructions. Mainframes and early minicomputers contained circuit boards full of integrated circuits that implemented the CPU. Single-chip central processing units, called microprocessors, made possible personal computers and workstations) |
| comp., MS | policy processing sequence | vinnsluröð reglu (The order in which conflicts between policy rules are resolved. Policy rules defined at a lower level of the sequence always override conflicting policy rules at higher levels of the sequence) |
| math. | processing error | vinnslu villa |
| comp., MS | processing instructions | vinnsluforskrift (Information stored in the prologue of an XML document. This information is passed through the XML parser to any application that uses the XML document) |