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Definition of to process in English English dictionary: An outgrowth of tissue or cell; {i} procedure, routine; course of action; advance; summons to court; program which uses some of a multitasking computer's system resources (Computers); projecting part in an organism; {n} a method, progress, course, order, knob; march in a procession; "They processed into the dining room"; A process is a series of related activities and conversations which is is designed to gather input, and convert it into a desired result A process may be anything from billing customers to creating an educational program, to designing an exhibit Benchmarking is a process By definition, a process has several key characteristics: it has specific standards which determine if it´s done correctly, and which let it be repeated by others; it consumes resources such as time, money or energy; and it responds to quality control mechanisms that can help the process be done more efficiently A more efficient process might result in things being done faster, cheaper, or result in the creation of a better product or service Topic areas: Accountability and Evaluation; The preparation of a chemical for manufacture and distribution in commerce: (1) in the same form or physical state as, or in a different form or physical state from, that in which it was received by the person so preparing such substance, or (2) as part of an article containing the toxic chemical Process also applies to the processing of a toxic chemical contained in a mixture or trade name product; The organized method of converting inputs (people, equipment, methods, materials, and environments) to outputs (products or services) The natural aggregation of work activities and tasks performed for program delivery; A collection of activities that, together, produce a useful product or service by applying resources from any number of functional divisions of the organization This collection of activi-ties begins with an "input," in the form of resources such as investment capital, knowledge, or physical material, and ends with a specific "output," in the form of a product or service of value to a customer or other key stakeholder See also "Core Processes" and "Function "; A sequence of steps, tasks or activities that converts inputs from suppliers to an output A work process adds value to the inputs by changing them or using them to produce something new; 1 (v ) A collective term referring to the series of activities required to gain intellectual control of records, papers, or collections, including: accessioning, arrangement, culling, boxing, labeling, description, and preservation 2 (v ) In photography, the chemical treatment of exposed film to induce the latent image to emerge 3 (v ) With respect to automated records, the inputting of data into a data bank so that the data may be manipulated and called forth to serve a variety of needs; 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; An activity that is repeatedly executed within the enterprise, each execution of which produces a specific effect on information entities Discrete in time Includes a short description of the purpose of this process or the results that it achieves; A process is a series of things which happen naturally and result in a biological or chemical change. It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process; 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"; When raw materials or foods are processed, they are prepared in factories before they are used or sold. fish which are processed by freezing, canning or smoking The material will be processed into plastic pellets. diets high in refined and processed foods. Process is also a noun. the cost of re-engineering the production process. + processing pro·cess·ing America sent cotton to England for processing; a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial"; A change taking place in time, such that an input is transformed to an output This can be cyclic if the sequence of changes is such that the output recreates the input (such as autocatalysis); 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"; 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"; A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product; The activity of a processor and its resources as it executes a program Resources associated with a process could include a process ID, files, time limits, shared memory, signal handlers, child processes, and so on A process can be subdivided into threads; A path of succession of states through which a system passes; (Ticaret) 1) v. To transform an input or set of inputs into a form with different characteristics, such as value, physical attributes, etc. 2) n. The environment, methods and resources used for a specific task or activity; To treat with a substance; If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it. The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan; the preparation of a toxic or hazardous substance, including without limitation, a toxic substance contained in a mixture or trade name product, after its manufacture, for distribution in commerce (e g , in the formulation of paints or coatings, any listed constituents are processed, in the manufacture of polystyrene, the styrene monomer is processed): a) in the same form or physical state, or in a different form or physical state, from that in which it was received by the toxics user so preparing such substance; or b) as part of an article containing the toxic or hazardous substance Note that repackaging a chemical is considered processing it although relabeling or redistributing a container of a toxic substance where no repackaging of the toxic substance occurs does not; A Course in Miracles emphasizes that within the dream of separation forgiveness occurs over time, and is therefore a process of growth; our fear of God's Love is so great that we cling to our specialness as protection, and thus we must learn gently and patiently that the ego's guilt and attack reinforce pain, while the Holy Spirit's forgiveness leads to joy see: periods of unsettling; If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing. You have to let us struggle for ourselves, even if we must die in the process. basic Bessemer process basic oxygen process Bessemer process bloomery process crucible process cyanide process MacArthur Forrest process due process finery process halftone process kraft process open hearth process Siemens Martin process patio process Mexican process process philosophy puddling process Solvay process ammonia soda process stochastic process Haber Bosch process synthetic ammonia process Haber ammonia process; When people process information, they put it through a system or into a computer in order to deal with it. facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results + processing pro·cess·ing data processing see also word processing; deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants; a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"; A BSD abstraction for a running program A process’ resources include a virtual address space, threads, and file descriptors In Mac OS X, a process is based on one Mach task and one or more Mach threads; To use or manipulate data with a software program; deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"; The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance; institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"; An outgrowth of tissue; deliver a warrant or summons to someone; "He was processed by the sheriff"; An association of phenomena governed by physical, chemical, or biological laws An example of a process is the vertical mixing of ocean waters in the so-called surface-mixed layer; the state variables for this process include temperature, salinity in the water on a vertical scale of tens of meters, and heat flow and wind stress at the sea surface Other examples include the volcanic deposition of dust and gases into the atmosphere, eddy formation in the atmosphere and oceans, and soil development; a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"; To walk in a procession; A task or program that is or was executing; (1) A collection of code, data, and other system resources, including at least one thread of execution, that performs a data processing task (2) A running application, its address space, and its resources (3) An instance of a running program A Win32 process owns a 4-GB address space containing the code and data for an application's executable file; it does not execute anything It also owns certain resources, such as files, dynamic memory allocations, and threads (4) A program running under the OS/2 operating system, along with the resources associated with it (memory, threads, file system resources, and so on); A statement of events; a narrative; A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries; a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" a mental process that you are not directly aware of; "the process of denial" a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" 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" 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" deal with in a routine way; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants; In the Multitasking context, a process is a task with high protection and isolation against other processes The memory areas of two processes are separated completely Processes can be executed using different user IDs resulting in different access rights Sub-processes share file handles with their parent process; A process is a single executable module that runs concurrently with other executable modules For example, in a multi-tasking environment that supports processes, like OS/2, a word processor, an internet browser, and a data base, are separate processes and can run concurrently Processes are separate executable, loadable modules as opposed to threads which are not loadable Multiple threads of execution may occur within a process For example, from within a data base application, a user may start both a spell check and a time consuming sort In order to continue to accept further input from the user, the active thread could start two other concurrent threads of execution, one for the spell check and one for the sort Contrast this with multiple EXE files (processes) like a word processor, a data base, and internet browser, multi-tasking under OS/2 for example; Almost all IT developments require a different way of working for someone If you move replying to a site's contact us form from freeform email to a job-based web application where admins take ownership of a contact and reply via a form, then this is a different process Alternatively, if you're selling products online, you'll need to ensure that there's a process for handling returns; 1 The combination of people, equipment, materials, methods, and environment that produce output-a given product or service A process can involve any aspect of a business 2 A key tool for managing processes is statistical process control, a planned series of actions of operations which advances a material or procedure from one stage of completion to another 3 A planned and controlled treatment that subjects materials to the influence of one or more types of energy for the time required to bring about the desired reactions or results (Ref 7); When people are processed by officials, their case is dealt with in stages and they pass from one stage of the process to the next. Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department; Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis; The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ; In Windows, an object consisting of an executable program, a set of virtual memory addresses, and a thread; in UNIX, a synonym for thread See also thread; In SFX Machine, a process is a DSP algorithm that either modifies a sound (e g , delay, lowpass) or extracts information from it (Envelope Follower, Pitch Tracker) The output of the process is sent to the modulation block as well as to the left and right outputs, if selected Do not confuse a DSP process with the Process button, which tells SFX Machine to process the audio and send it back to the host program; shape, form, or improve a material; "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"; An independent unit of execution running within the image Also the class of Smalltalk object representing such Smalltalk processes are more similar in concept to threads than traditional processes Dolphin permits (and indeed requires) multiple independent processes to be running at the same time; A running program; an instance of program execution; "treat an oil spill"; (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"; An instance of a running program; 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; An active system of operations or functions that analyze and transform information (Solso); A process is a series of actions which are carried out in order to achieve a particular result. There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible The best way to proceed is by a process of elimination; 1 Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; 2 A systematic sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output; {f} treat, adapt, subject to series of procedures; prepare, make ready; 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; To perform a particular process

to process

Hyphenation

to proc·ess

Turkish pronunciation

tı prôses

Pronunciation

/tə ˈprôˌses/ /tə ˈprɔːˌsɛs/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.