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Glossary definition(s) for: process
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n., The series of motions, or activities in general, carried out to set oneself to work and go on towards each formal step of a procedure.
[ Archives - Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science , Page: 75 ]
Duranti, Luciana. Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Dictionary definition(s) for: process
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n., The series of motions, or activities in general, carried out to set oneself to work and go on towards each formal step of a procedure.
[ Archives - Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science , Page: 75 ]
Duranti, Luciana. Diplomatics: New Uses for an Old Science. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
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n., A summons or writ, esp. to appear or respond in court.
[ Government - Black's Law Dictionary ]
Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
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n., Process has special legal senses (1) "the proceedings in any action or prosecution" , and (2) "the summons by which a person is cited to appear in court" . Sense (2) is especially baffling to nonlawyers unfamiliar with legal procedures. E.g., "an execution is a 'process' of the court issued to enforce the judgment of that court."
[ Government - A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage ]
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. 2nd ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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n., The proceedings in any action or prosecution.
[ Government - Black's Law Dictionary ]
Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2004.
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n., The sequence of states of an executing program. A process consists of the program code (which may be shared with other processes which are executing the same program), private data, and the state of the processor, particularly the values in its registers. It may have other associated resources such as a process identifier, open files, CPU time limits, shared memory, child processes, and signal handlers.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
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v., To manipulate data by mechanical means.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book. 9th ed. Edited by Raymond John Prytherch. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 2000.
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n., Used for actions or procedures followed to produce some end, and for the actions or changes that take place in materials or objects. When emphasis is on the manner or method by which actions or procedures are performed, use "techniques."
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