Process

Definition: Process

Process

Noun

1. A particular course of action intended to achieve a results; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error".

2. A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls".

3. The performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the act of remembering".

4. 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.

5. A mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial".

6. A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process".

Verb

1. Deal with in a routine way: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants".

2. Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill".

3. Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information; "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech".

4. Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him".

5. Shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal".

6. Deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff".

7. March in a procession; "They processed into the dining room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "process" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Avian

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Science

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Process

Conduct

Course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method; path.

Convexity

Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.

Course

Noun: corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration.

DVerb: in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time; in time.

Engraving

Printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing; three-color process.

Futurity

Adverb: prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while.

Legality

Legal process; form, formula, formality; rite, arm of the law; habeas corpus; fieri facias.

Posteriority

Adverb: subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent, at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons; from that time, from that moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time.

Reasoning,

Process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning; deduction, induction, abduction; synthesis, analysis.

Crosswords: Process

Swedish (action, case, lawsuit, litigation, operation, plea, process, trial).

You disobeyed a direct order and lost a $13 million fighter in the process. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here (The Player; writing credit: Michael Tolkin)

I do seem to remember a process where you people ask me questions and I give you answers, and then I ask you questions and you give me answers, and that's the way we find out things (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

Now what is a wedding, well Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as: the process of removing weeds from one's garden (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career (Say Anything...; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Cookie pieces contain no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage. (references; author: unknown)

The Political Process (1970)

Canned Meat Department. No. 5: Vacuum Process (1901)

Process (2003)

Emeco process (2000)

L7: The Beauty Process (1998)

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References

• Process Controls and Instrumentation in Germany: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• Ceramics Process Systems Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Process Equipment, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Japan Process Development Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Industrial Process Controls in Thailand: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

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Books

• Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launch (reference)

• The Accelerated Learning Fieldbook: Making the Instructional Process Fast, Flexible, and Fun (reference)

• Indian federal acknowledgment process : hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on H.R. 3430, to establish administrative procedures to extend federal recognition (reference)

• Bridge to Reality: A Heart Centered Approach to a Course in Miracles and the Process of Inner Healing (reference)

• The Addictive Personality: Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior (reference)

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Periodicals

• Association For Work Process Improvement Membership (reference)

• British Directory Of Investigators & Process Servers (reference)

• Business Process Management Journal (reference)

• Ca Selects: Polymerization Kinetics & Process Control (reference)

• Family Process (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Just The Facts - The Election Process in America (reference)

• Portrait of an Artist - Louise Nevelson in Process (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Arrange & Process Basic Channel Tracks (reference)

• The Process of Belief (reference)

• Process of Elimination (reference)

• The 9/11 Grieving Process (reference)

• Replication of the Process (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• NUMARK DM-3002X 3-Line Scratch Mixer with Post Process Looping (reference)

• Tandberg Data Slr1 Wet Process Cleaning Cartridge For Slr1 Only (reference)

• IGrafx Process 2000 (reference)

• SQL Server 7.0 Internet Connector Upgrade Version (License Per Process) (reference)

• WAS 4.0 Advance SSE 128R A Process PP NLV Multi Platform (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer).

Scientists have identified a protein, named autocrine motility factor (AMF), that causes cancer cells to grow "arms" or pseudopodia, enabling them to migrate to other parts of the body. Locomotion is integral to the entire process of metastasis. Credit: Susan Arnold (photographer).

Usually, erythema nodosum is a secondary sequela of another disease process, or due to a drug hypersensitivity reaction that manifests itself as tender red bumps on the skin. Credit: CDC.

A microgametocyte, a product of the erythrocytic cycle, is shown in an oval RBC. The ingestion of the gametocytes by an Anopheles sp. mosquito begins the parasitic multiplication process during the Sporogonic Cycle. Credit: CDC.

Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving ... Credit: NASA.

This ghostly apparition is actually an interstellar cloud caught in the process of ... Credit: NASA.

Photo #1 of 8. Having reached the "buster" molt stage, a Maryland blue crab , Callinectes sapidus, has begun the process of shedding its shell. The genus and species mean tasty beautiful swimmer. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Bayou Lafourche was the main channel of the Mississippi River a few thousand years ago. As river bed fills, the river changes course seeking a steeper slope to the sea. If allowed to follow its natural cycle, the Mississippi River would be in the process of changing its course into the bed of the Atchafalaya River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Deformed jaws of salmon caused by the spawning process altering their bodies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A berm early in the construction process. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The equality of a simple poor way of living, confining their desires within the narrow bounds of each man's small property, made few controversies, and so no need of many laws to decide them, or variety of officers to superintend the process, or look after the execution of justice, where there were but few trespasses, and few offenders. (Second Treatise of Government)

Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. (reference)

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (reference)

The German literate reversed this process with the profane French literature. (reference)

They will similarly prohibit within their territory all legal process relating to payment of enemy debts, except in accordance with the provisions of this Annex. (reference)

This disposition makes unnecessary any discussion whether such segregation also violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (reference)

In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1911)

None of the defendants was given a full and effective warning of his rights at the outset of the interrogation process. (reference)

State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. (reference)

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Sorrow however turns out to be not a state but a process.

They were excellent at what they did and, especially in the discovery process, were utterly absorbed in their work

Sylvie and Bruno stood by her, deeply interested in the process.

(r)The performance of the reparation is a process in which the whole soul is absorbed

During this process all these elements which he deemed common and insignificant fell out of the scene

Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper, When thou shalt tell the process of their death

Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Swallowing is a complex process. (references)

Getting allergy shots is a long process. (references)

The transplantation process has many steps. (references)

Business

Asiana is not a player in this process. (references)

Other companies are in the process of application. (references)

Privatization has been a slow and painful process. (references)

Children

Morocco

It is possible for an individual to self-register, but the process is long and cumbersome. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

Although exit visas no longer are required, there remain certain instances in which exit from the country may be denied, including if there are pending criminal or civil legal proceedings, unsaved prison sentences, evasion of duty as determined by a court of law, presentation of false documentation during the exit process, and travel by active-duty military. (references)

Macedonia

The Broadcast Council issued licenses to broadcasters; the Government, through the office of the Prime Minister, had influence over the process. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the agency responsible for Nigeria's telecom regulation, is in the process of issuing an operating license to NITEL. (references)

Lithuania

Both Ignalina NPP and Lietuvos Energija (involved in generation and distribution of electric energy and production of heat), and Lietuvos Dujos (import, transmission and distribution of natural gas) are under decommissioning and restructuring pending the privatization process. (references)

Lithuania

A certificate, which is required in the incorporation process, will be issued by the bank as conclusive evidence that the requisite funds meeting the minimum capital requirement are held in the account. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

Many prisoners remain in jail after being acquitted or completing their sentences, due to the failure of responsible officials to process their releases. (references)

Ukraine

The July amendments also introduced a new appeals process to the court system. (references)

Azerbaijan

In 2000 the Court reregistered the opposition Azerbaijan Democratic Party after a long appeal process. (references)

Indigenous People

Philippines

The law requires a process of informed consultation and written consent by the indigenous group to allow mining on tribal lands. (references)

Mexico

Opponents claimed that the process by which the reform was amended contravened international norms and conventions--specifically ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, which requires public participation in the development of legislation that affects the lives of indigenous people. (references)

Botswana

The ultimatum highlights the fact that the Government has made little real progress since 1996 when international attention was focused on the problem of resettling Basarwa living in the CKGR. Both the Basarwa and the Government are seeking out concerned NGO's to assist with the resettlement process and to address the larger issue of improving the Basarwa's standard of living without sacrificing what remains of their traditional way of life. (references)

Minorities

Estonia

Some allege that the examination process, which 75 to 90 percent of persons pass, is arbitrary. (references)

Switzerland

The Federal Council determined that it should examine the process. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Minority officers are beginning to be deployed in areas where minority returns are occurring; however, the lack of housing for returning police officers has hindered this process. (references)

Political Economy

Tunisia

Lengthy delays in trials are a problem, and due process rights are not always observed, despite a Government initiative establishing a court to oversee the proper administration of sentences. (references)

Algeria

The authorities do not always respect defendants' rights to due process. (references)

INDONESIA

The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) has recapitalized the banking system, but it has not moved quickly to dispose of assets acquired in the debt-restructuring process or to take on uncooperative debtors. (references)

Political Rights

Kazakhstan

A newly elected bicameral legislature took office in December 1999. Although in many ways an improvement over the presidential election, parliamentary elections held in 1999 were marred by election law deficiencies, executive branch interference in the electoral process, and a lack of government openness regarding vote tabulations. (references)

Congo

Pygmies continued to be excluded effectively from social programs and the political process, in part due to their isolation in remote forested areas of the country. (references)

Jordan

Women have the right to vote, and women's groups encourage women to vote and to be active in the political process; however, the percentage of women in government and politics does not reflect their numbers in the population. (references)

Trade

China

Firms with trading rights must undergo an annual qualifications test and certification process. (references)

China

Each of these agreements has played a role in China's gradual process of trade liberalization, and created new opportunities for U.S. exporters. (references)

China

China has been gradually eliminating them and will continue this process after accession over a several year phase-in period. (references)

Travel

Saudi Arabia

Resident visas also are available through a separate process. (references)

Korea

Since July 1, 1994, the Justice Ministry extended the length of stay authorized for some long-term foreign residents, and has simplified the visa renewal process by eliminating the 15-day, out-of-the-country waiting period. (references)

Switzerland

The complicated process of obtaining a work visa can take several months. (references)

Women

Belgium

The Division of Equal Opportunity, a part of the Ministry of Labor, focuses specifically on issues affecting women, including violence against women, sexual harassment, and the participation of women in the political process. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

A 1998 AIDF survey found that many women refused to discuss their experience of domestic violence; of women who completed the AIDF interview process, nearly 90 percent had been beaten or struck on at least one occasion. (references)

Algeria

However, because of societal pressures, women frequently are reluctant to endure this process. (references)

Worker Rights

Paraguay

Employers who wish to oppose the formation of a union can delay union recognition further by filing a writ opposing it. However, almost all unions that request recognition eventually receive it. The official process can take a year or more. (references)

South Africa

In those sectors in which workers are not organized sufficiently to engage in the collective bargaining process, the law gives the Minister of Labor the authority to set wages, including for farm laborers and domestic workers. (references)

Albania

The General Prosecutor's office was in the process of establishing an Organized Crime Strike force, made up of prosecutors and police officers, to handle high profile and sensitive cases; however, the lack of prosecution of traffickers remained a problem. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Process

Expressions using "process": 2) skimmed milk powder manufactured by the spray process ♦ accumulated process ♦ Acheson process ♦ Acid process ♦ adiabatic process ♦ affidavit by process server ♦ Alveolar Process ♦ ammonia process ♦ authoring process ♦ Bachelier process ♦ Barrel process ♦ basic cognitive process ♦ Basic process ♦ battle process ♦ be in process ♦ be in process of ♦ Bell process ♦ Benday process ♦ Bernoulli process ♦ bessemer process ♦ biological process ♦ biosynthetic process ♦ Bitumen process ♦ bodily process ♦ body process ♦ branching Poisson process ♦ branching process ♦ Brownian motion process ♦ Burnett process ♦ by a new process ♦ canning process ♦ Carbon process ♦ Cardiff process ♦ channel process ♦ chemical process ♦ child process ♦ chop and leach process ♦ cladding process ♦ Cobra process ♦ cognitive process ♦ Collodion process ♦ compulsory process ♦ computer aided process planning ♦ condylar process ♦ condyloid process ♦ continuous process control ♦ coronoid process ♦ coronoid process of the mandible ♦ cyanide process ♦ D process ♦ d.c.chromic process ♦ dangerous process ♦ DC chromic process ♦ Deacon's process ♦ defunct process ♦ democratic process ♦ desulphurizing process ♦ dipping process ♦ direct current chromic process ♦ Direct process ♦ dishonest process ♦ Dongola process ♦ doubly stochastic Poisson process ♦ due process ♦ due process of law ♦ early process design integrated with controls ♦ economic process ♦ editing process ♦ elective process ♦ electrostatic process ♦ enrichment process ♦ Ensiform process ♦ EPIC process ♦ epigene process ♦ epigenic process ♦ epitaxial process ♦ evolutionary process ♦ exogenetic process ♦ exogenous process ♦ extremal process ♦ factorizing process ♦ fermentation process ♦ ferrotype process ♦ Final process ♦ Flotation process ♦ flow process diagram ♦ fluidized bed process ♦ fractional process ♦ Fray, Farthing, Chen process ♦ fuel process cell ♦ Furry process ♦ Gantt process chart ♦ Garrett Coal Pyrolysis process ♦ Gaussian process ♦ Gayley process ♦ Gelatin process ♦ generative process planning ♦ geological process ♦ geomorphic process ♦ geomorphological process ♦ German process. Additional references.

Beginning with "process": process-a, process--a, process-accountable, process-approach, process-based, process-centred, process-cheese, process-diagnostic, process-equipment, process-focused, process-generated, process-god, process-independent, process-is, process-orientated, process-oriented, process-printing, process-related, process-response, process-server, process-servers, process-specific, process-switching, process-type, process-water.

Ending with "process": continuous-process, counter-process, opponent-process, pre-process.

Containing "process": Inter-process Communication.