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A process is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system. More precisely, and from the most general systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's phase space.
It may refer to:
- Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
- Process (computing), a running program; a task to be executed, especially one which is largely self-contained
- Process (engineering), a set of transformations of input elements into products with specific properties, characterized by transformation parameters
- Process (systems engineering)
- Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
- Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism.
- Process (Candy Lo album)
- Business process, a method or system for achieving a commercial result
- Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
- Process music, music which arises from a process
- Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
- A specific recipe for semiconductor device fabrication is typically referred to as a "process"
- Interactions of Actors is a Process theory
Process may also be:
- Relaxer, a chemical agent that straightens hair (also known as a process haircut, a term primarily used for men)
See also
- Business Process Mapping
- Process architecture
- Process control
- Process management
- Process modeling
- Process theory
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