processing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊsɛsɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑsəsɪŋ/

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Noun

processing (countable and uncountable, plural processings)

1. The action of the verb to process.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
3. The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.

Hyponyms

• data processing
• word processing

Derived terms

• auditory processing disorder
• automatic data processing machine
• background processing
• batch processing
• blast processing
• central processing unit
• cryo-processing
• data processing machine
• graphics processing unit
• image processing
• information-processing
• natural language processing
• post-processing
• quantum processing unit
• query processing
• sensory processing sensitivity
• space processing
• wood processing

 

Translations

action of the verb to process

• Catalan: processament m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 處理／处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ)

• Czech: zpracování (cs) n
• Finnish: prosessointi (fi)
• German: Verarbeitung (de) f
• Greek: επεξεργασία (el) f (epexergasía)
• Hungarian: feldolgozás (hu)
• Irish: próiseáil f
• Korean: 처리 (ko) (cheori)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bearbeidelse m

• Portuguese: processamento (pt) m
• Romanian: prelucrare (ro) f, procesare (ro) f
• Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka)
• Serbo-Croatian: obrada (sh) f
• Spanish: procesamiento m

act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures

• Finnish: prosessointi (fi)
• French: traitement (fr) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prosessering m or f

  Nynorsk: prosessering f

• Polish: obróbka (pl) f
• Portuguese: processamento (pt) m
• Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka)
• Serbo-Croatian: procesuiranje n

Verb

processing

1. present participle and gerund of process

References

• processing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia