Process

Illustration of a physical process: a geyser in "action".

A process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system. Francis Rawle\'s (1914) revision of John Bouvier (1839), Law Dictionary p.2731: Process "Process" Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr. and William L. Root (1958) An introduction to the theory of Random Signals and Noise LCC 57-10020. p.39: Random Processes Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963) The Feynman Lectures on Physics ISBN 0-201-02010-6 p.1-5: Atomic processes F. Reif (1965) Statistical Physics volume 5 of the Berkeley Physics Course ISBN 0700486229 pp.49-50, 127-135 S. Giedion (1948) Mechanization takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history Processed food: pp. 42, 78, 186, 224-5 Ovid Eshbach and Mott Souders (eds.) (1936, 1952, 1975) Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals ISBN 0-471-24553-4 pp.875-880: processes and state changes for fluids 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
• 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.
  • Biological process
  • Chemical process
  • Thermodynamic process
• 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

Notes and References

• Nelson Wax (ed.) (1954) Selected papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes: J. L. Doob, L. S. Ornstein, Ming Chen Wang, S. Chandrasekhar, M. Kac, G. E. Uhlenbeck, S. O. Rice ISBN 0-486-60262-1, which drew upon a symposium on stochastic processes, with applications to physics, documented in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Volume II, No.2, 1949 pp. 150-282

See also

• Business Process Mapping
• Process architecture
• Process control
• Process management
• Process modeling
• Process theory

External links

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• Definitions of process on the Web, by Google.
• What is a process, paper by Gerrit Muller, 2007.

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