A Process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] 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.
- 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
- ^ 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
- 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
- Definitions of process on the Web, by Google.
- What is a process, paper by Gerrit Muller, 2007.
