Process

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A process is a set of activities that interact to achieve a result.

Process may refer to:

In arts, entertainment, and media

• Process (John Cale album), 2005
• Process (Candy Lo album), 2007
• Process (Sampha album), 2016
• The Process (collective), formed in the 1990s
• Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
• The Process, in 3%, the procedure by which candidates are selected to join the Offshore

In 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 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 costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
• Process management, ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a business process or manufacturing processes
• Process management (Project Management) , a systematic series of activities directed towards causing an end result in engineering activities or project management
• Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes

In 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

In science and technology

• Process (science), the scientific method
• Process theory, the scientific study of processes

In 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

In 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

In computing

• Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
  • Child process, created by another process
  • Parent process
• Process (iOS application), non-linear editing photography software for iOS devices
• Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
• Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment

In 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

In 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
  • Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation

Other uses

• Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
• Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
• Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
• Process Thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances