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Series of activities
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 area , related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area
Process costing , a cost allocation procedure of
managerial accounting
Process management (project management) , a systematic series of activities directed towards planning, monitoring the performance and causing an end result in engineering activities, business process, manufacturing processes or project management
Process-based management , is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes
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
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
In
probability theory :
Branching process , a Markov process that models a population
Diffusion process , a solution to a stochastic differential equation
Empirical process , a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
Lévy process , a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
Poisson process , a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
Predictable process , a stochastic process whose value is knowable
Stochastic process , a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
Wiener process , a continuous-time stochastic process
Process calculus , a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
Process function , a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
Other uses
The Process, a concept in the film
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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
Work in process , goods that are partially completed within a company, awaiting finalization for sale.
External links
The dictionary definition of
process at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of
processes at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of
processing at Wiktionary