Process

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
 * 2)  An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
 * 3)  A task or program that is or was executing.
 * 4)  A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
 * 5) * 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.
 * 6) * 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.
 * 7) A path of succession of states through which a system passes.

Derived terms

 * due process
 * due process of law
 * due-process
 * process color, process colour
 * process hot water
 * process server


 * process upset
 * biological process
 * chemical process
 * thermodynamic process
 * business process
 * industrial process

Related terms

 * proceed
 * procedure

Verb

 * 1)  To perform a particular process.
 * We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
 * 1)  To treat with a substance

Verb

 * 1) To walk in a procession.

Thesaurus
Afro, MO, act, activity, algorithm, alter, analog process, answer, approach, arrange, attack, barber, behavior pattern, bench warrant, blow up, blueprint, bob, capias, carve, caveat, change, chisel, clear for action, clear the decks, coif, coiffure, cold wave, conk, convert, course, course of action, cruise, cultivate, cure, deal with, death warrant, deploy, develop, development, digital process, dispose of, dress, enlarge, excrescence, excrescency, extract, fare, fashion, feeling, fieri facias, fix, fix up, form, function, get ready, go, grow, guise, habere facias possessionem, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, handle, harvest, headdress, hie, home permanent, hunting, injunction, input oscillation, interdict, journey, line, line of action, lines, machine, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, manage, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, manipulate, manner, manner of working, marshal, means, measure, method, methodology, mill, mine, mittimus, mobilize, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modify, modus, modus operandi, motion, natural, nisi prius, notice, notification, offset, operation, order, organize, oscillatory behavior, overcorrection of error, overshoot, pass, permanent, permanent wave, plan, pompadour, practice, prearrange, precept, prep, prepare, pretreat, print, procedure, proceed, proceeding, procure materials, prohibitory injunction, provide, pump, push on, put in shape, raise, ready, ready up, rear, refine, repair, routine, search warrant, self-excitation, settle preliminaries, shingle, smelt, step, stock, stock up, store, style, system, tack, take care of, tan, technique, the drill, the how, the way of, tone, transform, travel, treat, trim, try out, utilize, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, wave, way, wise, writ

Etymology 1
From procés:, from  processus:, past participle of procedo:

Noun

 * Basque: prozesu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 過程, 过程
 * Finnish: prosessi
 * French: procès


 * German: Prozess
 * Japanese: プロセス, 過程
 * Korean: 프로세스, 과정 (課程)
 * Persian: فرآیند, پروسه
 * Romanian: proces, procese
 * Russian: процесс
 * Spanish: proceso


 * Arabic: علمية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 過程, 过程
 * Czech:


 * Finnish: prosessi
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: процесс


 * : bewerken, bewerking, ontwikkelingsgang, proces, verloop
 * : procezo
 * : (1) διεργασία (diadikasia), (1,4,5) διαδικασία (diadikasia) , (2) δικαστική κλήση (dikastiki klisi)
 * : recepto
 * : (1) διεργασία (diadikasia), (1,4,5) διαδικασία (diadikasia) , (2) δικαστική κλήση (dikastiki klisi)
 * : recepto
 * : recepto


 * Kurmanji: prose, qonax, pêvajo, doman, derax, demajo, vetîre
 * Sorani: هۆکار
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)
 * : విధానం (vidhaanaM)

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: käsitellä
 * German:


 * Russian: обрабатывать, обработать


 * Hebrew: עיבד
 * Russian: обрабатывать, обработать

Anagrams

 * corpses

Noun
process


 * 1) process