process

Forms

1.A series of events leading to a result or product.
- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
- But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.
- For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stage process of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.
2.The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
3.A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
4.Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

1.To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”
- We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
- If you process you own digital files, it's as time consuming, or maybe even more time consuming, than it is to process and print your own film.
2.To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.
3.To develop photographic film.
4.To perform a particular process on a thing.
- Processing the harvested cocoons begins with grading and then boiling them in soapy water to soften the sericin that binds the fibers together.

Very common· #415

From Middle English proces

From Old French procés (“journey”)

From Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).