process


Definition: Meaning of, process in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈprəʊsɛs /

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process processes
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  1. a series of actions that are done in order to achieve a particular result
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  2. a series of things that happen naturally and result in gradual change
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  3. be in the process of (doing) something to have started doing something and not yet be finished
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  4. be in process if something is in process, it is happening now
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  5. in the process while you are doing something or something is happening
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  6. process of elimination a way of finding the right answer, the truth etc by gradually deciding that none of the other answers etc are possible
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  7. a method of making or producing goods
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Word Forms:
Prsesent Past Past Participle
process processed processed
Present Participle Third Person Singular
processing processes
[transitive] [intransitive always + adverb/preposition]
  1. to make food, materials, or goods ready to be used or sold, for example by preserving or improving them in some way
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  2. to deal with an official document, request etc in the usual way
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  3. to deal with information using a computer
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  4. to print a picture from a photographic film
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  5. formal to walk or move along in a very slow and serious way, especially as part of a group
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process used in phrases

  • Acheson process (noun)
    1. an industrial process for making graphite by heating a mixture of coke and clay
  • Benday process (noun)
    1. a photoengraving technique for adding shading, texture or tone to a printed image
  • Bessemer process (noun)
    1. an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
  • Haber process (noun)
    1. an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst
  • Haber-Bosch process (noun)
    1. an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalyst
  • Markoff process (noun)
    1. a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state
  • Markov process (noun)
    1. a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state
  • Solvay process (noun)
    1. an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide
  • acromial process (noun)
    1. the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade
  • adiabatic process (noun)
    1. thermodynamics any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat
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