process: význam a definície

A series of actions, changes, or functions bringing about a result: the process of digestion; the process of obtaining a driver's license.

A series of operations performed in the making or treatment of a product: a manufacturing process; leather dyed during the tanning process.

Progress; passage: the process of time; events now in process.

Law The entire course of a judicial proceeding.

Law A summons or writ ordering a defendant to appear in court.

Law The total quantity of summonses or writs issued in a particular proceeding.

Biology An outgrowth of tissue; a projecting part: a bony process.

Any of various photomechanical or photoengraving methods.

Computer Science A running software program or other computing operation.

Computer Science A part of a running software program or other computing operation that does a single task.

See conk3.

To put through the steps of a prescribed procedure: processing newly arrived immigrants; process an order.

To prepare, treat, or convert by subjecting to a special process: process ore to obtain minerals.

Law To serve with a summons or writ.

Law To institute legal proceedings against; prosecute.

Computer Science To perform operations on (data).

To gain an understanding or acceptance of; come to terms with: processed the traumatic event in therapy.

To straighten (hair) by a chemical process; conk.

Prepared or converted by a special process: process cheese.

Made by or used in any of several photomechanical or photoengraving processes: a process print.

To move along in or as if in a procession: "The man in the panama hat offered his arm and ... they processed into the dining room” ( Anita Brookner).