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Process or processing typically describes the act of taking something through an established and usually routine set of procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a manufacturing or administrative procedure, such as processing milk into cheese, or processing paperwork to grant a mortgage loan.

Process or processing may refer to:

Science and technology

• Process (engineering), in the article, engineering which is collaborative and concerned with completing a project as a whole; or, in general, a set of transformations of input elements into products with specific properties, characterized by transformation parameters
• Systems engineering process, a process for applying systems engineering techniques to the development of systems
• Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism
• Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
• Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
• Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with controlling the output of processes
• Process theory, the scientific study of processes
• Stochastic process, in probability theory, a random process, as contrasted to a deterministic process
• Process (patent), usually refers to a manufacturing process
• Food processing, transforming raw ingredients into food
• Information processing, change (processing) of information detectable by an observer
• Process Manufacturing, manufacturing concerned with formulas and recipes
• Signal processing, analysis of images and time-varying measurement values

Computers

• Process (computing), a computer program or an instance of a program running concurrently with other programs
• Process group, in POSIX-conformant operating systems, a collection of one or more processes
• Processing (programming language), a programming language and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities
• Computer data processing, using a computer to enter data and convert data into usable information
• Word processing, creation of documents using a word processor
• Geometry processing, or mesh processing, processing of 3D models

Medicine, biology, and psychology

• Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
• Biological process, a process of a living organism
• Cognitive process, the process of thought
• Mental process, functions or processes done with the mind
• Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means

Business

• Business process, activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for customers
• Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
• Business process mapping, activities involved in defining a business entity
• Process architecture, the structural design of process systems
• Process management, the activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process
• Process modeling, processes of the same nature are classified together into a model
• Business process management (BPM), a management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients
• Business process modeling (BPM), in systems engineering and software engineering, the activity of representing the processes of an enterprise

Music

• Process music, music which arises from a process
• Process (Candy Lo album)

Other uses

• Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
• Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
• Process haircut, which uses a Relaxer chemical agent to straighten hair

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