0 a series of actions that you take in order to achieve a result: --
They have developed a new process for extracting aluminium from bauxite.
the ageing process
the digestive process
She arrived at the correct answer by a process of elimination (= by deciding against each answer that was unlikely to be correct until only one was left).
Going to court to obtain compensation is a long process.
The party has begun the painful (= difficult) process of rethinking its policies and strategy.
This decision may delay the process of European unification.
Increasing the number of women in top management jobs will be a slow process.
the peace process
1 to deal with documents in an official way: --
I need to get those films processed.
Returning soldiers need time to process what they have experienced in combat.
Visa applications take 28 days to process.
3 a series of actions or events performed to make something or achieve a particular result, or a series of changes that happen naturally: --
4 to deal with something according to a particular set of actions: --
5 a series of actions that are needed in order to do something or achieve a result: --
improve/speed up/streamline a process
a disciplinary/hiring/selection process
approval/evaluation/inspection process
consultation/decision-making/planning process The role offers the opportunity to be a part of the company's decision-making process.
Management recognizes it is important to get the process right even if it means delaying the project start date.
The resulting images were processed and analysed as with the 38-mm photographs (see above) to obtain the percentage white pixels.
As a result, philosophical modernity assumes that human beings are merely a higher form of animal life resulting from a slow evolutionary process.
Because instrumented code is (almost) ordinary source, it can be processed by the ordinary compiler.
They generalize the ordinary dynamical systems and stochastic processes.
It is a multi-faceted process in that records will be linked by person, by place and by ordinary (or bishop).
However, there is a sharp distinction between the mechanisms posited by repression and the processes thought to underlie ordinary forgetting.
Although the (pseudo) first-order kinetics can describe afterripening of red rice, they probably reveal only a synthesis of several component processes.
These two processes have not been adequately represented by rice growth simulation models.
