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Process

//ˈpɹəʊ.sɛs// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A series of events leading to a result or product.
"This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed."
2
a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states wordnet
3
The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially 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."
4
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result wordnet
5
A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
"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."

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6
a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant wordnet
7
Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
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(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents wordnet
9
Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
"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"
10
a mental process that you are not directly aware of wordnet
11
An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
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a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant wordnet
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An executable task or program.
14
The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

Verb

1
To perform a particular process on a thing. transitive
2
To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.
"Prayers completed and Psalms ending, patriarch, emperor, and their sumptuously clad entourages move past the open, silver-clad wings of the Imperial Door and process into the crowded nave and continue to the sanctuary at the east."
3
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition wordnet
4
To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques. transitive
"We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions."
5
perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information wordnet

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6
To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state. figuratively, transitive
"I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process."
7
deliver a warrant or summons to someone wordnet
8
To develop photographic film. transitive
9
shape, form, or improve a material wordnet
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To take legal proceedings against. transitive
"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."
11
march in a procession wordnet
12
deal with in a routine way wordnet
13
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).

Etymology 3

Back-formation from procession.

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