A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
Things called a process include:
Business and management
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Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
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Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
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Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
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Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
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Process area, related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area
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Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
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Process management (project management), a systematic series of activities directed towards planning, monitoring the performance and causing an end result in engineering activities, business process, manufacturing processes or project management
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Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes
Law
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Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
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Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
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Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding
Science and technology
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The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
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Process theory, the scientific study of processes
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Industrial processes, consists of the purposeful sequencing of tasks that combine resources to produce a desired output
Biology and psychology
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Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
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Biological process, a process of a living organism
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Cognitive process, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
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Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
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Neuronal process, also neurite, a projection from the cell body of a neuron
Chemistry
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Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
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Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place
Computing
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Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
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Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
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Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment
Mathematics
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In probability theory:
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Branching process, a Markov process that models a population
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Diffusion process, a solution to a stochastic differential equation
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Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
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Lévy process, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
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Poisson process, a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
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Predictable process, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
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Stochastic process, a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
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Wiener process, a continuous-time stochastic process
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Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
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Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
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Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
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Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
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Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
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Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
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Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
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Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
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Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
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Polytropic process, which obeys the equation
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Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation
Other uses
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The Process, a concept in the film 3%
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Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
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Language processing in the brain
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Natural language processing
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Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
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Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
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Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
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Process thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
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Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
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Work in process, goods that are partially completed within a company, awaiting finalization for sale.
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