process Definition - English Dictionary | process Explanations and Pronunciations

A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
1. But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.

(law) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.

(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.

(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

VT To perform a particular process.
1. We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.

VT To treat with a substance.

(mostly British) To walk in a procession.

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Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This could have been avoided by the simple process of suspending egg crating made of timber or some other solid material painted black with the light fittings above it.
- I went through a lengthy immigration process before I was allowed across the border.
- Further, methods are shared by paleontologists and neontologists, and this allows direct communication on the patterns and processes of macroevolution.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Our model assumes that a certain amount of energy is necessary to convert Redβ from the nonclamped state into the clamped state, making correct annealing and DNA clamping a coupled process.
- The maxilla lacks an accessory antorbital fenestra and the toothrow is ventrally offset relative to the anterior edentulous process.
- However, these previous experiments examined genetic variants, incidence of disease, or hyperbiliverdinemia, and thus may have documented patterns not typical of more common processes.

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