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Process vs Explicitation - What's the difference?

process | explicitation |

As nouns the difference between process and explicitation

is that process is a series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product while explicitation is the process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.

As a verb process

is to perform a particular process.

process

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(es)
  • A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 27, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City , passage=But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
    This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
  • (legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
  • (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  • (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  • (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
  • (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
  • * 1960', Mack Tyner, '''''Process''' Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances'' - Ordinarily a '''process''' plant will use a steam boiler to supply its ' process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
  • * 1987', J. R. Richards, ''Principles of control system design'' in ''Modelling and control of fermentation '''process'''es'' - The words ''plant'' or '''''process''''' infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical ' process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
  • A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • (lb) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  • Derived terms
    * due process * due process of law * due-process * process color, process colour * process hot water * process server * process upset

    Verb

    (es)
  • To perform a particular process.
  • We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
  • To treat with a substance
  • To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it as valid.
  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (es)
  • (mostly British) To walk in a procession.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    explicitation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, possibly nonstandard) The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
  • * 1927 , Alfred H. Lloyd, "Also the Emergence of Matter," Journal of Philosophy , vol. 24, no. 12, p. 326:
  • [N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each other or "interact," than that they are constantly realizing each other.
  • * 1962 , Helmut Fleischer, "The Materiality of Matter," Studies in Soviet Thought , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 15:
  • The further attributes of matter—e.g. motion, space, time, substantiality, and reflection—appear merely as explicitations and concretizations of the fundamental thesis on the priority of matter over consciousness.
  • * 1988 , P. A. Kirschner and M. A. M. Meester, "The laboratory in higher science education," Higher Education , vol. 17, no. 1, p. 81:
  • This article is primarily directed at a clarification and explicitation of objectives and of their implementation in laboratory work at the Dutch Open University.
  • * 2007 , R. Lanier Anderson, "Comments on Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment''," ''Philosophical Studies , vol. 137, no. 1, p. 105:?
  • Further, while Frege's judgment stroke has the merit of making this distinction fully explicit, and thereby available to do logical work, there are still, as Martin recognizes, real limits on explicitation here—at least within a Fregean context.
  • * 2009 , G. Aloysius, "Demystifying Modernity: Notes Not so Tentative," Social Scientist , vol. 37, no. 9/10, p. 54:
  • The entire range of political theory for example is concerned with explicitation of this egalitarianism through the agency of the State.
  • * 2009 , Chris Ackerley, "Book Review: Beckett at 100: Revolving It All''" (eds. Linda Ben Zvi and Angela Moorjani, Oxford, 2008), ''The Journal of British Studies , vol. 48, no. 2, p. 550:
  • Beckett would have hated the fuss: too big, too noisy, too much explicitation ; the City of the Plain welcoming back its prodigal son whose image (banners, pictures, books) was everywhere.

    Usage notes

    * Usage is confined almost entirely to academic journals, and to the field of translation studies.