Procedure vs Contrivance - What's the difference?
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A particular method for performing a task.
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(label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
* (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
(label) That which results; issue; product.
(label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
(label) A surgical operation.
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
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something overly artful or artificial
Procedure is a related term of contrivance.
As nouns the difference between procedure and contrivance
is that procedure is procedure while contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.procedure
English
(wikipedia procedure)Noun
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- Gracious procedures .
- (Bacon)
Synonyms
* (method) algorithm, method, process, routine * (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol * (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages) * (medicine) operationExternal links
* *Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .