Etimology
From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus, from prōcēdō.
noun
process (plural processes)
A series of events which produce a result (the product).
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
(law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
(computing) An executable task or program.
The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
Examples
This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
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.
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […] In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stage process of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it
Related words
hyponyms
Augustin process
Bell-Krupp process
Bell process
Bernoulli process
Bessemer process
Birkeland-Eyde process
Chinese restaurant process
Chorleywood process
Downs' process
Downs process
Hawkes process
Lincoln County process
Mannheim process
Pattinson process
Poisson process
Unified Process
Unified Software Development Process
Ziervogel process
related terms
proceed
procedure
verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
(transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
(transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
(transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
(transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
(transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
Examples
We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
If you process you own digital files, it's as time consuming, or maybe even more time consuming, than it is to process and print your own film.
I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.
Etimology
Back-formation from procession.
verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
To walk in a procession