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Procedure vs Procedurally - What's the difference?

procedure | procedurally |

As a noun procedure

is procedure.

As an adverb procedurally is

(manner) according to a procedure; following a procedure.

procedure

Noun

  • A particular method for performing a task.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  • (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)
  • Gracious procedures .
  • (label) That which results; issue; product.
  • (Bacon)
  • (label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  • (label) A surgical operation.
  • 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) operation

    Anagrams

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    procedurally

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (manner) According to a procedure; following a procedure.
  • * 1991 , ,
  • The Supreme Court of Georgia held petitioner's equal protection claim procedurally barred as untimely under Georgia law, and we are now called upon to review the adequacy of the State's procedural rule to bar consideration of the constitutional issue raised. We reverse.
  • (manner) In a manner that is concerned with procedure.
  • * 2010 , Kostadin Kratchanov, et al., Non-procedural Implementation of Local Heuristic Search in Control Network Programming'', conference paper in Rossitza Setchi et al. (editors) ''Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 14th International Conference, KES 2010, Proceedings , Part II, Springer, LNAI 6277,
  • What actually happens is that the CNP programmer uses the tools for dynamic control to achieve, without procedurally specifying any algorithm, a behavior of the standard interpreter that corresponds to the desired heuristic or other more advanced search strategy.