Thesaurus: process

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1. n. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A statement of events; a narrative.
4. n. Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
5. n. 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.
6. n. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
7. n. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
8. n. 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
9. n. a mental process that you are not directly aware of
10. n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
11. n. a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
12. v. subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition