Process

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 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

• 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

• The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
• Process theory, the scientific study of processes
• Industrial processes, consists of the purposeful sequencing of tasks that combine resources to produce a desired output

• 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

• 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

• Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
  • Child process, created by another process
  • Parent process
• Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
• Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment

• 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

• Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
  • Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
  • Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
  • Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
  • Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
  • Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
  • Polytropic process, which obeys the equation ${\displaystyle pv^{,円n}=C}${\displaystyle pv^{,円n}=C}
  • Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation

• The Process, a concept in the film 3%
• Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
• Language processing in the brain
• Natural language processing
• Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
• Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
• Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
• Process thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
• Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
• Work in process, goods that are partially completed within a company, awaiting finalization for sale.

• The dictionary definition of process at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of processes at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of processing at Wiktionary

• Business processes
• Business process management
• Process engineering
• Industrial processes
• Technology-related lists
• Legal procedure
• Biological processes
• Chemical processes
• Process (computing)

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