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Processing vs Machined - What's the difference?

processing | machined |

As verbs the difference between processing and machined

is that processing is while machined is (machine).

As a noun processing

is the action of the verb to process .

As an adjective machined is

created by machine, or as though created by machine.

processing

English

(wikipedia processing)

Noun

  • The action of the verb to process .
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.

    • Derived terms

    * data processing * word processing

    Verb

    (head)

    • machined

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (machine)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Created by machine, or as though created by machine.
  • * 2011 , Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books , XXXIII.9:
    • I don’t believe Lindsay senses the satiric undercurrents beneath the machined ripples of Ballard’s prose.