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A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.

Things called a process include:

Business and management

  • Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
  • Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
  • Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
  • Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
  • Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
  • Process management, ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a business process or manufacturing processes
  • Process management (Project Management), a systematic series of activities directed towards causing an end result in engineering activities or project management
  • Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes
  • Process industry, a category of material-related industry

Law

  • Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
  • Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
  • Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding

Science and technology

  • The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
  • Process theory, the scientific study of processes
  • Consists of the purposeful sequencing of tasks that combine resources to produce a desired output

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, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
  • Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
  • Neuronal process, also neurite, a projection from the cell body of a neuron

Chemistry

  • Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
  • Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place

Computing

Mathematics

Thermodynamics

Other uses

  • The Process, a concept in the film 3%
  • Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
  • Language processing in the brain
  • Natural language processing
  • Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
  • Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
  • Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
  • Process Thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
  • Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies

External links

  • The dictionary definition of process at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of processes at Wiktionary
  • The dictionary definition of processing at Wiktionary
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