Process vs. Operation
Processnoun
A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
Processnoun
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
Processnoun
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
Processnoun
(anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
Processnoun
(legal) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
Processnoun
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
Processnoun
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
Processnoun
(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
Processverb
(transitive) to perform a particular process on a thing
Processverb
(transitive) to retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
Processverb
(transitive) to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
Processverb
To walk in a procession.
Processnoun
The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
Processnoun
A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
Processnoun
A statement of events; a narrative.
Processnoun
Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
Processnoun
The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; - a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Processnoun
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;
Processnoun
a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states;
Processnoun
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
Processnoun
a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
Processnoun
a mental process that you are not directly aware of;
Processnoun
a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant;
Processverb
deal with in a routine way;
Processverb
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition;
Processverb
perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information;
Processverb
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
Processverb
shape, form, or improve a material;
Processverb
deliver a warrant or summons to someone;
Processverb
march in a procession;
Operationnoun
The method by which a device performs its function.
Operationnoun
The method or practice by which actions are done.
Operationnoun
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operationnoun
A planned undertaking.
Operationnoun
A business or organization.
Operationnoun
(medicine) A surgical procedure.
Operationnoun
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
Operationnoun
(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
Operationnoun
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
Operationnoun
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operationnoun
The method of working; mode of action.
Operationnoun
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
Operationnoun
Effect produced; influence.
Operationnoun
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities or mathematical objects, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
Operationnoun
Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Operationnoun
a business especially one run on a large scale;
Operationnoun
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions;
Operationnoun
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;
Operationnoun
the state of being in effect or being operative;
Operationnoun
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;
Operationnoun
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);
Operationnoun
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);
Operationnoun
process or manner of functioning or operating;
Operationnoun
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods;
Operationnoun
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
Operationnoun
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);
