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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