process

Meanings

Noun

• A series of events which produce a result (the product).
• 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.
• Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
• An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• A structure that arises above a surface.
• An executable task or program.
• The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

Verb

• To perform a particular process on a thing.
• To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
• To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
• To develop photographic film.
• To take legal proceedings against.
• To walk in a procession

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Hawkes process
• Lincoln County process
• Poisson process
• Unified Process
• Unified Software Development Process

Origin

• From Middle English proces, from Old French procés ("journey"), from Latin prōcessus, from prōcēdō.