process

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈprəʊsɛs/ ,

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• (US) IPA: /ˈprɑsɛs/ ,

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Noun

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.

   • 2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, BBC Sport:

     But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.

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)

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

Translations

series of events to produce a result

Basque: prozesu (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 過程 (zh), 过程 (zh) (guòchéng) Finnish: prosessi (fi) French: procès (fr) m. German: Prozess (de) m. Greek: διαδικασία (el) (diadikasía) f. Japanese: プロセス (ja) (purosesu), 過程 (ja) (かてい, katei)

Korean: 프로세스 (ko) (peuroseseu), 과정 (ko) (gwajeong) (課程 (ko)) Persian: فرآیند (fa) (farayand), پروسه (fa) (proseh) Portuguese: processo (pt) m., processos (pt) m. pl. Romanian: proces (ro) n., procese (ro) n. pl. Russian: процесс (ru) (procéss) m. Spanish: proceso (es) m.

path of succession of states through which a system passes

Arabic: علمية (ar) ('ilmiyya) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 過程 (zh), 过程 (zh) (guòchéng) Czech: děj (cs) m. Finnish: prosessi (fi)

Greek: διεργασία (el) (diergasía) f. Hungarian: folyamat (hu) Portuguese: processo (pt) m., processos (pt) m. pl. Russian: процесс (ru) (procéss) m.

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Czech: proces (cs) m. Dutch: bewerken, bewerking, ontwikkelingsgang, proces, verloop Esperanto: procezo (eo) French: recette (fr), processus (fr) m., procedé (fr), proceder (fr) Galician: proceso (gl) m. Greek: (1) διεργασία (diadikasia) f., (1,4,5) διαδικασία (diadikasia) f., (2) δικαστική κλήση (dikastiki klisi) f. Ido: recepto Italian: azione (it)

Kurdish: Kurmanji: prose, qonax, pêvajo, doman, derax, demajo, vetîre Sorani: هۆکار (ku) (hokAr) Norwegian: prosess (no) m. Portuguese: processo (pt), proceder (pt), procedimento (pt) Swedish: process (sv) Spanish: proceso (es) m. Telugu: విధానం (vidhaanaM)

Verb

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

Czech: zpracovat (cs) Finnish: käsitellä (fi) German: verarbeiten (de)

Greek: επεξεργάζομαι (el) (epexergázomai) Russian: обрабатывать (ru) (obrabátyvat') impf., обработать (ru) (obrabótat') pf.

to perform a particular process

Greek: επεξεργάζομαι (el) (epexergázomai) Hebrew: עיבד (he) (ibéd)

Russian: обрабатывать (ru) (obrabátyvat') impf., обработать (ru) (obrabótat') pf.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from procession.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /prɒˈsɛs/

Verb

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

1. To walk in a procession.

Anagrams

• corpses

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Noun

process c.

1. process

Declension

Declension of process

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