Process
Series of activities
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
- Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
- Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
- Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
- Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
- Process area, related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area
- Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
- 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
- Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes
Law
- Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
- Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
- Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding
Science and technology
Biology and psychology
- Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
- Biological process, a process of a living organism
- Cognitive process, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
- Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
- Neuronal process, also neurite, a projection from the cell body of a neuron
Chemistry
- Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
- Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place
Computing
Mathematics
- In probability theory:
- Branching process, a Markov process that models a population
- Diffusion process, a solution to a stochastic differential equation
- Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
- Lévy process, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
- Poisson process, a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
- Predictable process, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
- Stochastic process, a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
- Wiener process, a continuous-time stochastic process
- Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
- Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
Thermodynamics
Other uses
External links
The dictionary definition of process at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of processes at Wiktionary
The dictionary definition of processing at Wiktionary
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