Definition of process
- n. - The act of proceeding; continued forward movement;
procedure; progress; advance.
- n. - A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive
act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or
procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or
decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
- n. - A statement of events; a narrative.
- n. - Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a
bone; anapophysis.
- n. - The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or
personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit;
strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to
answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called
judicial.