# Process

A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.
Things called a process include:

## Business and management

* Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
* Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
* Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
* Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
* Process area, related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area
* Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
* Process management (project management), a systematic series of activities directed towards planning, monitoring the performance and causing an end result in engineering activities, business process, manufacturing processes or project management
* Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes

## Law

* Due process, the concept that governments must respect the rule of law
* Legal process, the proceedings and records of a legal case
* Service of process, the procedure of giving official notice of a legal proceeding

## Science and technology

* The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
* Process theory, the scientific study of processes
* Industrial processes, consists of the purposeful sequencing of tasks that combine resources to produce a desired output

### 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, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
* Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
* Neuronal process, also neurite, a projection from the cell body of a neuron

### Chemistry

* Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
* Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place

### Computing

* Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
** Child process, created by another process
** Parent process
* Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
* Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment

### Mathematics

* In probability theory:
** Branching process, a Markov process that models a population
** Diffusion process, a solution to a stochastic differential equation
** Empirical process, a stochastic process that describes the proportion of objects in a system in a given state
** Lévy process, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
** Poisson process, a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
** Predictable process, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
** Stochastic process, a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
** Wiener process, a continuous-time stochastic process
* Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
* Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics

### Thermodynamics

* Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
* Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
** Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
** Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
** Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
** Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
** Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
** Polytropic process, which obeys the equation $pv^{\,n}=C$
** Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation

## Other uses

* The Process, a concept in the film 3%
* Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
* Language processing in the brain
* Natural language processing
* Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
* Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
* Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
* Process thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
* Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
* Work in process, goods that are partially completed within a company, awaiting finalization for sale.