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English

Etymology 1

From Old French proces (“journey”), from Latin processus, past participle of procedo

Pronunciation

Noun

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Wikipedia process (plural processes)

  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.
  2. (law) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
  3. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  4. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  5. (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.
  6. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
Derived terms
terms derived from process (noun)
  • chemical process
  • thermodynamic process
  • business process
  • industrial process
Related terms
Translations
path of succession of states through which a system passes
  • Arabic: علمية ar(ar) ('ilmiyya) f.
  • Czech: děj cs(cs) m.
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Verb

to process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

  1. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
    We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
  2. (transitive) To treat with a substance
Translations
to use or manipulate data with a software program
to perform a particular process
  • Hebrew: עיבד he(he) (ibéd)

Etymology 2

Back-formation from procession.

Pronunciation

Verb

to process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)

  1. To walk in a procession.

Anagrams

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension of process
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative process processen processer processerna
genitive process processens processers processernas

process

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