Noun

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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.

Noun

Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.

Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress .

Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}

Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.

An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 124:

With the king about to go on progress , the trials and executions were deliberately timed.

* 1887 , (Thomas Hardy), The Woodlanders :

Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.

Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.

The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.