procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
ipa: /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: procedures
Etymology: From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Senses: examples: text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: A particular method for performing a task.
glosses: A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
examples: text: Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
glosses: The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
examples: text: Gracious procedures.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
examples: text: There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which results; issue; product.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical operation.
Synonyms: sense: method
word: algorithm
sense: method
word: method
sense: method
word: process
sense: method
word: routine
sense: set of established forms or methods of an organized body
word: protocol
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: function
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: routine
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: sub
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: subroutine
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
english: although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages
translation: although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages
word: method
topics: medicine
sciences
word: operation
Hyponyms: word: administrative procedure
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: stored procedure
Derived terms: word: Arndt-Eistert procedure
word: Bobbitt procedure
word: civil procedure
word: collection procedure
word: criminal procedure
word: Davydov procedure
word: Evans procedure
word: Fontan procedure
word: Frey's procedure
word: Harada-Ito procedure
word: Hartmann's procedure
word: Ing-Manske procedure
word: Krukenberg procedure
word: Lowry process
word: Mitrofanoff procedure
word: Montreal procedure
word: Nuss procedure
sense: obliterative procedure process
word: Edeleanu process
word: parliamentary procedure
word: procedure call
word: procedure division
word: procedure mask
word: procedure word
word: process-server
word: process-serving
word: Puestow-Gillesby procedure
word: Puestow procedure
word: Rastelli procedure
word: remote procedure call
word: Scopinaro procedure
word: security procedure
word: Sigwart procedure
word: single justice procedure
word: surgical procedure
word: voice procedure alphabet
word: Whipple procedure
Related terms: proceed
process
procession