See English definition for “process”.
The `Process` Context manages the fundamental procedural mechanisms.
A `Process` is made with one of the (Tally | Function | Slot | Loop) keywords,
operating on one of the the basic `Constructs`: (Sequence | List | Set | String),
or a complexly nested procedure made from these basic constructs.
These 8 keywords provide the lexical infrastructure for the data structures that define and scale machine architecture.
The `Process` Keywords systematize machine subroutine structures, by segregating iterative structure.
The Alternate Grok32` Grouping develops substantially the same view of this subject.
process n.
1. Act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance; of time, course; lapse.
The thoughts of men are widened with the process
of the sums.
Tennyson.
2. A course of procedure; something that occurs in a series of actions or events.
Tell her the process of Antonio’s
end.
Shak.
3. Issuance from a source; emanation.
4. a Any phenomenon which shows a continuous change in time, whether slow or rapid; as, the processes of nature; the process of growth; a mental process. b A series of actions, motions, or operations definitely concluding to an end, whether voluntary or involuntary; progressive at or transaction; continuous operation or treatment; a method of operations or treatment, esp. in manufacture; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; a process of reasoning; a process of making steel.
5. Obs. a A statement of events; a story; account; also, a passage of one. b Course; drift. c Progresss; advance; development. d A mandate; edict.
6. Anatomy & Zoology. Any marked prominence or projecting part; an outgrowth or extension.
7. Bot. A small projection or emergence; in moses, one of the elements of the peristone or endostome.
8. Law. The writ or mandate that serves as the means used for bringing a defendant into court to answer in an action or proceeding, civil or criminal; in a broader sense, any writ, order, notice summons, or other writing by which a court exercises its jurisdiction over the parties or subject matter of any action or proceeding; also, collectively, the whole or such mandates or other writings in an action or proceeding, or, in a still wider sense, the whole course of proceedings (in the sense being essentially equivalent to procedure). The original writ with all in continuation of it is called original process; process issued by way of execution is often called final process. and mesne pocess is used to include all process issuing between the beginning and end of the suit or (from the modern disuse of the older original process) the whole process preceding the execution.
9. Physics. A change undergone by a substance, as a change of pressure, volume, temperature or the like; as, an adiabatic process.
10. Print. Photomechanical processes collectively, as distinguished from engraving by hand.
Syn. –
PROCESS, PROCEDURE, PROCEEDING are here
compared in their non-technical uses. PROCESS denotes a
progressive
action or series of acts or steps esp. I in the regular course of
performing ,
producing, or making something; PROCEDURE denotes esp. the method of
prosecuting
or conducting an operation or process; PROCEEDING applies esp. to
measures or
transactions; as a mental process, a chemical process, the correct procedure,
legal procedure; a harsh proceeding.
[From Websters1949Unabridged.]
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