Process

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A process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system. More precisely, and from the most general systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's phase space.

It may refer to:

Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
Process (computing), a running program; a task to be executed, especially one which is largely self-contained
Process (engineering), a set of transformations of input elements into products
Process (systems engineering)
Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism.

Process (Candy Lo album)
Business process, a method or system for achieving a commercial result
Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
Process music, music which arises from a process
Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
A specific recipe for semiconductor device fabrication is typically referred to as a "process"
Interactions of Actors is a Process theory

Process may also be:

Relaxer, a chemical agent that straightens hair (also known as a process haircut), a term primarily used for men

Notes and References

Nelson Wax (ed.) (1954) Selected papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes: J. L. Doob, L. S. Ornstein, Ming Chen Wang, S. Chandrasekhar, M. Kac, G. E. Uhlenbeck, S. O. Rice ISBN 0-486-60262-1, which drew upon a symposium on stochastic processes, with applications to physics, documented in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Volume II, No.2, 1949 pp. 150-282