process

1. (manufacturing) The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.Examples: "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."; "1987, J. R. Richards, Principles of control system design in Modelling and control of fermentation processes – The words plant or process infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems."

2. (biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.

3. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.Examples: "But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it"

4. (anatomy) An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.

5. (computing) An executable task or program.