Process Definition
process
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Wikipedia has articles on: ProcessEtymology 1
From Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin processus, past participle of procedo
Pronunciation
Noun
Wikipedia has an article on: ProcessWikipedia process (plural processes)
- A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
- 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, BBC Sport:
- But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.
- (law) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
- (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
- (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
- (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances - Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
- 1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes - The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
Derived terms
terms derived from process (noun)
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Translations
series of events to produce a result
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Verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
- (transitive) To perform a particular process.
- We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
- (transitive) To treat with a substance
Translations
to use or manipulate data with a software program
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Etymology 2
Back-formation from procession.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /prɒˈsɛs/
Verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
- To walk in a procession.
Anagrams
- corpses
Swedish
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audio (file)
Noun
process c.
Declension
Declension of process| singular | plural | |||
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| nominative | process | processen | processer | processerna |
| genitive | process | processens | processers | processernas |
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Process
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up process, processes, or processing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Process or processing may refer to:Contents
- 1 Science and technology
- 2 Computers
- 3 Medicine, biology, and psychology
- 4 Business
- 5 Law
- 6 Music
- 7 Software
- Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
- Process haircut, which uses a Relaxer chemical agent to straighten hair
Science and technology
- Process (engineering), in the article, engineering which is collaborative and concerned with completing a project as a whole; or, in general, a set of transformations of input elements into output elements with specific properties, with the transformations characterized by parameters and constraints
- Systems engineering process, a process for applying systems engineering techniques to the development of systems
- Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism
- Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
- Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
- Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with controlling the output of processes
- Process theory, the scientific study of processes
- Stochastic process, in probability theory, a random process, as contrasted to a deterministic process
- Process (patent), usually refers to a manufacturing process
- Food processing, transforming raw ingredients into food
- Information processing, change (processing) of information detectable by an observer
- Process Manufacturing, manufacturing concerned with formulas and recipes
- Signal processing, analysis of images and time-varying measurement values
- Process ontology, a description of the components and their relationships that make up a process
Computers
- Process (computing), a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs
- Process group, in POSIX-conformant operating systems, a collection of one or more processes
- Processing (programming language), a programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities
- Processing.js, a JavaScript port of Processing (programming language)
- Computer data processing, using a computer to enter data and convert data into usable information
- Word processing, creation of documents using a word processor
- Geometry processing, or mesh processing, processing of 3D models
Medicine, biology, and psychology
- Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
- Biological process, a process of a living organism
- Cognitive process, the process of thought
- Mental process, functions or processes done with the mind
- Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means
Business
- Business process, activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for customers
- Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
- Business process mapping, activities involved in defining a business entity
- Process architecture, the structural design of process systems
- Process management, the activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process
- Process modeling, processes of the same nature are classified together into a model
- Business process management (BPM), a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients
- Business process modeling (BPM), in systems engineering and software engineering, the activity of representing the processes of an enterprise
Law
- Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
- Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
- Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
Music
- Process music, music which arises from a process
- Process (Candy Lo album)
Software
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