procedure

See also: procédure

English

Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

   Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

Synonyms

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine): operation

Hyponyms

• administrative procedure
• (computing): stored procedure

Derived terms

• Arndt-Eistert procedure
• Bobbitt procedure
• civil procedure
• collection procedure
• criminal procedure
• Davydov procedure
• Evans procedure
• Fontan procedure
• Frey's procedure
• Harada-Ito procedure
• Hartmann's procedure
• Ing-Manske procedure
• Krukenberg procedure
• Montreal procedure
• parliamentary procedure
• procedure division
• procedure mask
• procedure word
• Puestow-Gillesby procedure
• Puestow procedure
• remote procedure call
• Scopinaro procedure
• security procedure
• Sigwart procedure
• single justice procedure
• surgical procedure
• voice procedure alphabet
• Whipple procedure

 

Related terms

• proceed
• process
• procession

Translations

method for performing a task

• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Belarusian: працэду́ра f (pracedúra)
• Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 做法 (zh) (zuòfǎ), 方法 (zh) (fāngfǎ)

• Czech: postup (cs) m
• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Finnish: toimintatapa (fi), menetelmä (fi), menettely (fi), menettelytapa (fi), prosessi (fi), työtapa, metodi (fi)
• French: procédé (fr) m, procédure (fr) f
• Galician: procedemento (gl) m
• Georgian: პროცედურა (ṗrocedura), მეთოდი (ka) (metodi)
• German: Verfahren (de) n, Verfahrensweise f, [medizinischer] Eingriff (de) m
• Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
• Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
• Italian: procedura (it) f, iter (it) m, procedimento (it) m, metodo (it) m
• Japanese: 手段 (ja) (しゅだん, shudan), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō)
• Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha), 수단 (ko) (sudan), 방법 (ko) (bangbeop)
• Malay: tatacara (ms), prosedur
• Maori: pēheatanga, pēwheatanga, hātepe
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fremgangsmåte (no) m, prosedyre m

  Nynorsk: prosedyre m

• Persian: روال‎ (fa) (ravâl)
• Polish: procedura (pl) f
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: procedură (ro) f, procedeu (ro) n
• Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), ме́тод (ru) m (métod), мето́дика (ru) f (metódika)
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
• Swedish: procedur (sv) c, förfarande (sv) n
• Thai: วิธี (th) (wí-tii), กรรมวิธี (th)
• Tocharian B: upacār
• Turkish: metod (tr), yöntem (tr)
• Ukrainian: процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra)
• Vietnamese: phương pháp (vi)

series of small tasks to accomplish an end

• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)

• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Finnish: menettely (fi), menettelytavat
• French: procédure (fr) f
• German: Prozess (de) m, Vorgehen (de) n, Vorgehensweise (de) f
• Hebrew: נוהל‎ m
• Italian: procedura (it) f
• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejun), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki), 行程 (ja) (kōtei), 段取り (dandori)
• Kikuyu: mũtaratara class 3
• Maori: hātepe
• Persian: روند‎ (fa) (ravand)
• Polish: procedura (pl) f
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m

set of established forms or methods of an organized body

• Arabic: اِجْرَاء‎ m (ijrāʔ)
• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra), на́чин на ра́бота m (náčin na rábota)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)

• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Estonian: kord (et)
• Finnish: toimintamalli, menettelytavat (fi) pl
• French: procédure (fr) f
• German: Prozedur (de) f
• Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
• Italian: procedura (it) f, procedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 流儀 (ja) (りゅうぎ, ryūgi), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki)
• Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha)
• Persian: روال‎ (fa) (revâl)
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: procedură (ro) f
• Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
• Swedish: procedur (sv) c
• Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)

steps taken in a legal proceeding

• Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
• Czech: úkony (cs) pl
• Finnish: menettely (fi), oikeudenkäyntimenettely, työjärjestys
• Polish: procedura (pl) f
• Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m, trámite (es) m
• Thai: วิธีพิจารณา (wí-tii-pí-jaa-rá-naa)

computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task

• Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過程／过程 (zh) (guòchéng) (Chiefly Mainland China), 子程序 (zh) (zǐchéngxù)

• Czech: procedura (cs) f
• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Esperanto: proceduro (eo)
• Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), proseduuri (fi)
• French: fonction (fr) f
• German: Unterprogramm n
• Greek: υποπρόγραμμα (el) n (ypoprógramma), διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
• Hungarian: eljárás (hu), procedúra (hu)
• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejyun), 行程 (ja) (kōtē), プロシージャ (ja) (purosīja), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki)
• Persian: رویه‎ (fa) (ravie)
• Polish: procedura (pl) f
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: funcțiune (ro) f, funcție (ro) f, subrutină (ro) f
• Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), подпрогра́мма (ru) f (podprográmma)
• Turkish: yordam (tr)
• Vietnamese: thủ tục (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Prozedur (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Vorgehen (de) n
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} proceduro (io)

Further reading

• “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• reproduce

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

Derived terms

• afzettingsprocedure

Descendants

• → Indonesian: prosedur

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure oblique singular, f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• → English: procedure
• French: procédure