definição e significado de process

Definição

process (v. trans.)

1.put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose"use your head!" "we only use Spanish at home" "I can't use this tool" "Apply a magnetic field here" "This thinking was applied to many projects" "How do you utilize this tool?" "I apply this rule to get good results"

2.subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition"process cheese" "process hair" "treat the water so it can be drunk" "treat the lawn with chemicals" "treat an oil spill"

3.perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information"The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"

4.deliver a warrant or summons to someone"He was processed by the sheriff"

5.shape, form, or improve a material"work stone into tools" "process iron" "work the metal"

6.march in a procession"They processed into the dining room"

7.deal with in a routine way"I'll handle that one" "process a loan" "process the applicants"

8.institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against"He was warned that the district attorney would process him" "She actioned the company for discrimination"

process (n.)

1.a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation

2.a particular course of action intended to achieve a result"the procedure of obtaining a driver's license" "it was a process of trial and error"

3.a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant"a bony process"

4.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents"the process of thinking" "the cognitive operation of remembering"

5.a mental process that you are not directly aware of"the process of denial"

6.a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

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Merriam Webster

ProcessProc"ess, n. [F. procès, L. processus. See Proceed.]

1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. “Long process of time.” Milton.

The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson.

2. A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

Tell her the process of Antonio's end. Shak.

3. A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4. (Anat. & Zoöl.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

5. (Law) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

Deacon's process [from H. Deacon, who introduced it] (Chem.), a method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as sulphate of copper. -- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. Burrill. -- In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed. -- Jury process (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced. Burrill. -- Leblanc's process (Chem.), the process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by roasting with lime. -- Mesne process. See under Mesne. -- Process milling, the process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling. -- Reversible process (Thermodynamics), any process consisting of a cycle of operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects.

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Look up process, processes, or processing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Process or processing typically describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing or administrative procedure, such as processing milk into cheese, or processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan.

Process or processing may refer to:

1 Science and technology
2 Computers
3 Medicine, biology, and psychology
4 Business
5 Music
6 Other uses

Science and technology

Process (engineering), in the article, engineering which is collaborative and concerned with completing a project as a whole; or, in general, a set of transformations of input elements into products with specific properties, characterized by transformation parameters
Systems engineering process, a process for applying systems engineering techniques to the development of systems
Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism
Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with controlling the output of processes
Process theory, the scientific study of processes
Stochastic process, in probability theory, a random process, as contrasted to a deterministic process
Process (patent), usually refers to a manufacturing process
Food processing, transforming raw ingredients into food
Information processing, change (processing) of information detectable by an observer
Process Manufacturing, manufacturing concerned with formulas and recipes
Signal processing, analysis of images and time-varying measurement values

Computers

Process (computing), a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs
Process group, in POSIX-conformant operating systems, a collection of one or more processes
Processing (programming language), a programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities
Computer data processing, using a computer to enter data and convert data into usable information
Word processing, creation of documents using a word processor
Geometry processing, or mesh processing, processing of 3D models

Medicine, biology, and psychology

Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
Biological process, a process of a living organism
Cognitive process, the process of thought
Mental process, functions or processes done with the mind
Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means

Business

Business process, activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for customers
Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
Business process mapping, activities involved in defining a business entity
Process architecture, the structural design of process systems
Process management, the activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process
Process modeling, processes of the same nature are classified together into a model
Business process management (BPM), a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients
Business process modeling (BPM), in systems engineering and software engineering, the activity of representing the processes of an enterprise

Music

Process music, music which arises from a process
Process (Candy Lo album)

Other uses

Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
Process haircut, which uses a Relaxer chemical agent to straighten hair

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