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process
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin pr?cessus, from pr?c?d?.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p???s?s/
- (General American) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA(key): /?p??s?s/
- (Canada, rarely US) enPR: pr??s?s, IPA(key): /?p?o?s?s/
- Hyphenation: pro?cess
Noun
process (plural processes)
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- 1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
- 1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, 39:
- But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it
- 1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, 39:
- (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
- (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- due-process
- interprocess
Related terms
Related terms
- proceed
- procedure
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (purosesu)
Translations
Verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figuratively) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- 1845, Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland
- When I saw that he would not let me alone, I processed him for £12. My mother was with his brother John, and he allowed her six guineas for clothes; and if she did not want the money, he would allow it to me in the rent, and I made him pay that when he would not leave me alone.
- 1845, Report from Her Majesty's Commissioners of inquiry into the state of the law and practice in respect to the occupation of land in Ireland
Derived terms
- processed
- processor
Translations
Etymology 2
Back-formation from procession.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: pr?-s?s?, IPA(key): /p???s?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
- Hyphenation: pro?cess
Verb
process (third-person singular simple present processes, present participle processing, simple past and past participle processed)
- To walk in a procession
Translations
Anagrams
- Cospers, Crespos, corpses, scopers
Latvian
Etymology
From Latin pr?cessus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).
Noun
process m (1st declension)
- process
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin processus (“progression, progress, process”), perfect passive participle of pr?c?d? (“I advance, proceed”), from pr?- +? c?d? (“I go, move, proceed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr??s?s/
Noun
process c
- process
Declension
Derived terms
- processa
Related terms
- processuell
References
- process in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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tumescence
English
Etymology
First attested 1725, from French tumescence, from Latin tumesc?ns (“swelling”), present participle of tum?sc? (“I begin to swell”), from tume? (“I swell”) + -?sc? (“I become”) (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh?- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tju??m?s?ns/
Noun
tumescence (countable and uncountable, plural tumescences)
- A swelling due to the presence of fluid.
- A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.
Synonyms
- tumidity
- turgescence
- turgidity
- turgor
Derived terms
- detumescence
Related terms
Translations
References
French
Noun
tumescence f (plural tumescences)
- tumescence
Derived terms
- détumescence
- intumescence
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