The rules for the conduct of a lawsuit; there are rules of civil, criminal, evidence, bankruptcy, and appellate procedure
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a reserved word, an Ada subprogram that is invoked by a procedure call statement 1 1, 1 2, 2 2 2 4, A 1
A set of specific steps that describe how an activity should be carried out, and by whom For example, the procedure dealing with carrying out a post-implementation review of a Change would be likely to describe the scope of the procedure (to what Changes does this procedure apply), its purpose and how the success of the Change will be measured, the individual procedural steps and the responsibilities for carrying out or being involved in each of those steps Procedures may be supported by more detailed Work Instructions
provide a method by which a policy is accomplished; the instructions necessary to carry out a policy statement Focuses on action or steps and there is usually a starting point and an ending point to that action
a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings 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
(1) A named sequence of control statements and/or data that is saved in a library for processing at a later time, when a calling statement activates it; it provides the capability to replace values within the procedure (2) In Fortran 90, procedure is defined by a sequence of statements that expresses a computation that may be invoked as a subroutine or function during program execution It may be an intrinsic procedure, an external procedure, an internal procedure, a module procedure, a dummy procedure, or a statement function If a subprogram contains an ENTRY statement, it defines more than one procedure
A group of commands used to select and schedule work Work (job streams) and scheduling parameters are defined in a procedure, including pre/post requisites, resource requirements, date/time restrictions, error handling and symbolic variables
A surgical operation performed on a person during a patient visit, as classified according to the ICD-9-CM or CPT-4 coding schemes A person may undergo more than one procedure during a single surgical operation For example, a patient who had arthroscopy with tendon repair on one leg undergoes two separate procedures
A computation that can be invoked during program execution It can be a subroutine or function, an internal, external, dummy or module procedure, or a statement function A subprogram can define more than one procedure if it contains an ENTRY statement See also subprogram
The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks
{i} routine, protocol; course of action; subroutine, sequence of instructions (Computers)
The manner in which an operation is performed; a set of directions for performing an examination or analysis - the actual parameters of the methods employed
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"