process
IPA: prˈɑsɛs
noun
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- (manufacturing) 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.
- (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
- (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
verb
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- To walk in a procession
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Examples of "process" in Sentences
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- But if you're open to exploring new avenues, the future for you and your word process program looks rosy.
- Participants must be involved in process from the beginning, need input at start from intended users on how it can engage them.
- On the upper surface of the axis, the second vertebra, is a peg or process, called the _odontoid process_ from its resemblance to a tooth.
- The designation process aims to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis by requiring firms that pose risk to hold more capital and be subject to more oversight.
- User) - InputObject $process - PassThru} $owners = ($appendedprocesses | select owner) foreach ($owner in $owners) $evtdescription = "PowerShell process is being run under the next account:" + $owner.
- The designation process, which is mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, will require firms designated as systemically important to hold additional capital and be subject to heightened regulatory scrutiny.
- But through the mists of all these conflicting theories and probabilities two facts of tremendous importance for our modern world emerge in clear relief, namely, that the grand law of the conservation of matter still holds true, and hence that _the matter of our world must have had an origin at some time in the past wholly different in degree and different in kind from any process going on around us that we call a natural process_.
- The BoE does "underwrite" to the extent that a bank in the process of swapping what you describe as their IOUs in the interbank settlement process* comes up short due to perversely high outflows vs inflows i.e. it has insufficient cash reserves lodged at the BoE to make good on those obligations caused by account activity and other banks will not lend that bank overnight money, then the BoE will do so to enable all IOUs to be honoured and the system to remain viable.
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