process

1. A series of events which produce a result (the product).

   This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.

2. 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.

3. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
4. Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
5. Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
6. An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
7. A structure that arises above a surface.
8. An executable task or program.
9. The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.

1. To perform a particular process on a thing.
2. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.

   We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.

3. To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.

   I didn't know she had a criminal record. That will take me a while to process.

4. To develop photographic film.
5. To take legal proceedings against.

verb

To walk in a procession