Process
A process is series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
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Things called a process include:
In arts, entertainment, and media
- The Process, a concept in the movie 3%
In 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
In 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
In 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
In anatomy
- Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
In biology and psychology
- 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
In 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
In computing
- Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
- Child process, created by another process
- Parent process
- Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
- Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment
In 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
In thermodynamics
- Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
- Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
- Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
- Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
- Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
- Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
- Polytropic process, which obeys the equation
- Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation
Other uses
- 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
gollark: Is this secretly a roguelike?
gollark: No, 40ish minutes ago.
gollark: I was just using FTS incorrectly.
gollark: Excitingly, I "have" "fixed" the bug in Minoteaur where the search thing complained about a corrupted database.
gollark: Bad news. Due to my parents taking me to a thing, I've been forced to go outside. If I don't come back, please install PotatOS on all your devices to provide more distributed computing power to instantiate my backup mindstate vector.
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