Processing typically describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing procedure, such as processing milk into cheese. Processing can also refer to administrative procedure such as processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan. Processing can refer to:
- Data processing
- Food processing
- Geographical processing
- Geometry processing
- Information processing
- Process industries
- Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means.
- Processing (programming language)
- Signal processing
- Word processing
