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process1 /prōˈses or (esp N American) prosˈ, also (Milton) prō-sesˈ/ noun- A state of being in progress or being carried on
- Course
- A narrative (Shakespeare)
- A series of actions or events
- A sequence of operations or changes undergone
- A photo-process (printing)
- A writ by which a person or matter is brought into court (law)
- An action, suit, or the proceedings in it as a whole
- Progression
- Proceeding
- An edict (Shakespeare)
- A projection or projecting part, esp on a bone (biology, anatomy)
transitive verb- To serve a summons on
- To sue or prosecute
- To subject to a special process
- To produce or print photomechanically
- To prepare (eg agricultural produce) for marketing by some special process, eg canning or bottling
- To arrange (documents, etc) systematically
- To examine and analyse
- To test the suitability of (a person) for some purpose
- (of a computer) to perform operations of adding, subtracting, etc, or other operations on (data supplied)
- To subject (data) to such operations
ORIGIN: Fr procès, from L prōcessus, -ūs advance; cf proceed prōˈcessed adjective - Produced by a special process, eg synthetically, photomechanically, etc
- Subjected to a certain process
prōˈcessor noun - Something or someone that processes
- A device which processes data (computing)
- A central processing unit (computing)
processˈual adjective - Governed by or related to an established process
- Having a direct function (N American)
process block noun A photomechanically made block for printing a picture process control noun Direct automatic control of a physical industrial process by computer process engineering noun The branch of engineering concerned with industrial processes proˈcess-server noun A sheriff's officer data processing The handling and processing of information by computers in the process (or in process) of In the course of (doing something, being made, etc) |