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process (verb), processes; processed; processing
1. A series of continuous actions directed toward a specific objective which bring about a particular result, end, or condition."
2. A series of natural occurrences that produce change or development.
3. The entire proceedings in a lawsuit.
4. A summons or writ ordering someone to appear in court.
5. In biology, a part that naturally grows on or sticks out on an organism.
6. Etymology: "fact of being carried on"; that is "in process", from Old French proces, "journey"; from Latin processus, "process, advance, progress"; from the past participle stem of procedere, "to go forward".
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(Latin: suffix; quality of, act of, process, function, condition, or place; forms nouns that denote an action; a product of an action; a place, an abode)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; action, act, process, state, or condition; or result of doing something)
(Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; action, process, state, quality, or condition of)
(Greek, ismos; Latin, ismus: a suffix: belief in, practice of, condition of, process, characteristic behavior or manner, abnormal state, distinctive feature or trait)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; actor, process, condition, or state of; result of; expresses a state or abnormal condition or process of some disease)
(Latin: suffix; forming nouns and verbs; an action done; the product of or a result of some kind of material or a process of doing something)
(Latin: suffix; pertaining to, like, of the kind of, relating to, characterized by, belonging to; action of, process of)
(Latin: cause, reason, purpose; judicial process, lawsuit)
(Greek (khylos) > Latin (chylus): juice, to pour; pertaining to chyle, the milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat that is a product of the digestive process)
(Greek: crowlike; used in the specialized sense of "pertaining to, or connected to the coracoid, the bony process that forms part of the scapular arch [and is so named because its shape resembles that of a crow's beak"])
(Latin: process of action)
(Latin: leaf, leaves; a plant's device for intercepting light, obtaining and storing water and nutrients, exchanging gases, and providing a process for photosynthesis)
(Greek > Latin: suffix; a process; a diseased condition)
(Greek: breast; used in the specialized sense as "of or pertaining to the breast-shaped mastoid process of the temporal bone)
(Greek: a meadow; a pasture; an abode; a place for eating; by extension, "distribution of an acute, necrotizing ulcerative process involving mucous membranes of the mouth or genitalia")
(Greek: "mass, bulk"; denotes relationship to a tumor, process of cancer formation; swelling, or mass)
(a process by which nature prevents everything from happening all at once)
(Greek: column; pillar; pillarlike implement or structure, especially the styloid process of the temporal bone)
(Latin: a suffix forming nouns from verbs of condition and action; an act or process: resumption, absorption; state or condition, redemption, exhaustion; something resulting from or otherwise related to an act or process, assumption, friction)
Word Entries containing the term: “process
activated sludge process, actilvated sludge effluent (s) (noun); activated sludge processes; actilvated sludge effluents (pl)
A widely used method for sewage treatment that raises the level of biological activity: An activated sludge process takes place due to an increase of contact between wastewater and actively growing micro-organisms.
electroforming process
An electrochemical process of metal fabrication using an electrolyte, an anode to supply the metal, and a control of the electrical current and of the deposit of metal on the matrix of a reflector.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 31)
electrolytic mercaptan process
1. A procedure used to remove mercaptans from refinery streams by using an electrolytic solution.
2. A process in which an aqueous caustic solution is used to extract mercaptans from refinery streams.

Mercaptans are groups of organosulfur compounds that are derivatives of hydrogen sulfide in the same way that alcohols are derivatives of water; have a characteristically disagreeable odor, and are found with other sulfur compounds in crude petroleum; an example is "methyl mercaptan".

Mercaptans are found in crude petroleum, and methyl mercaptan is produced as a decayed product of animal and vegetable matter.

They also are produced by certain plants and animals; for example, allyl mercaptan is released when onions are cut, butanethiol (butyl mercaptan) derivatives are present in skunk secretion, and mercaptans are among the sulfur compounds causing the disagreeable odor of flatus.

T-butyl mercaptan blends are often added to the odorless natural gas used for cooking and serve to warn of gas leaks.

Mercaptans are included in a wide variety of chemical reactions and their principal uses are in jet fuels, pharmaceuticals, and livestock-feed additives.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 36)
electrolytic process
1. An electrochemical process involving the principles of electrolysis, especially as relating to the separation and deposition of metals.
2. An process that uses electricity to cause the decomposition of a chemical compound.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 36)
electrophotographic process
The process in which images are formed by various electrical and photographic means.

Examples are processes employing selenium-coated drums or zinc-oxide-coated paper.

electrostatic process
1. A reproduction method in which image formation depends on electrical rather than chemical changes induced by light.
2. A non-chemical, non-impact imaging process in which a light source, corresponding to the image to be formed, discharges a charged dielectric photoconductive surface to form an inactive image.

This surface, a photoconductor, containing the unseen image is then dusted with dielectric toner powder which sticks to the charged areas, producing a visible image.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 84)
electrothermal process
1. A process in which an electric current is used to produce heat.
2. Used to generate higher temperatures than can be produced by combustion processes.
3. Any process that uses an electric current to generate heat, utilizing resistance, arcs, or induction.

It is used to achieve temperatures higher than those which can be obtained by combustion methods.

electrotyping, galvanoplastic process
1. The production of printing plates by electroforming.
2. The process of making an electrotype or the art or process of electrotyping something by employing, or producing by, the process of electolytic deposition; such as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal, etc.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 90)
Elektrion process
1. A method of condensation and polymerization in which a light mineral oil and fatty oil mixture is exposed to an electric discharge in a hydrogen atmosphere, yielding a viscous oil.
2. A process of condensation and polymerization in which a mixture of a relatively light mineral oil and a fatty oil is subjected to an electric discharge in an atmosphere of hydrogen.

The product is a very viscous oil (thick and sticky, reluctant to flow, and difficult to stir) used for blending with lighter lubricating oils.

This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 91)
endothermic reaction, endothermic process
1. A chemical reaction during which heat is absorbed.
2. Warm-blooded animals; such as, birds or mammals; maintaining a body temperature largely independent of the temperature of the environment; homoiothermic.
3. Characterized by, or attended with, the absorption of heat.
4. Also known as homoiotherm.
geological process (s) (noun), geological proceses (pl)
A dynamic action or event that occurs at the Earth's surface as a result of the application of natural forces resulting from gravity, temperature changes, freezing and thawing, chemical reactions, seismic shaking, and the agencies of wind and moving water, ice and snow: Where and when the force of a geological process exceeds the strength of the Earth's substance, that substance is changed by deformations, translocations, or chemical reactions.

This entry is located in the following unit: geo-, ge- + (page 12)
geomorphic process (s) (noun), geomorphic processes (pl)
The physical and chemical interactions between the Earth's surface and the natural forces acting upon it to produce landforms: The geomorphic processes are determined by such natural environmental variables as geology, climate, vegetation and baselevel, to say nothing of human interference. The nature of the process and the rate at which it operates will be influenced by a change in any of these variables.

mastoid process
1. A nipple-shaped process of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone extending downward and forward behind the external auditory meatus.

The auditory, or acoustic, meatus consists of two passages in the ear; the external acoustic meatus leads from the auricle to the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and the internal acoustic meatus which is for the passage of nerves and blood vessels.

2. The nipple-like projection of the petrous (hard, stony) part of the temporal bone or a very complex bone situated in the side of the skull of most mammals and containing the organ of hearing.
This entry is located in the following unit: mastoido-, mastoid- + (page 1)
paramastoid process
In some skulls, a downward projection from the lateral part of the jugular process (an occasional process of bone extending downward from the jugular process of the occipital bone (bone forming the rear and rear bottom of the skull in humans) which may articulate (having joints where separation may occur naturally) with the transverse process (either of the two bony projections on the sides of a vertebra) of the atlas (the uppermost bone of the vertebral column, which supports the skull).
This entry is located in the following unit: mastoido-, mastoid- + (page 1)
photovoltaic effect, photovoltaic process
The phenomenon that occurs when photons (the "particles" in a beam of light) strike electrons and free them from their bound position.

When this property of light is combined with the properties of semiconductors, electrons flow in one direction across a junction, setting up a voltage.

With the addition of circuitry, current flows and electric power is available.

This entry is located in the following units: photo-, phot-, -photic (page 16) volt + (page 3)
solar industrial process heat, SIPH
The use of solar thermal technologies to produce hot air, water, or steam for industrial purposes, generally at temperatures below 250 degrees centigrade.
stochastic process, random process
A family of random variables, dependent upon a parameter which usually denotes time.
This entry is located in the following unit: stochast- + (page 1)
xiphoid process
Composed of cartilage at the inferior aspect of the sternal body.

A pointed cartilage attached to the lower end of the breastbone or sternum, the smallest and lowest division of the sternum. Cartilaginous early in life, it may become ossified (bony) in adults. It is sometimes simply called the xiphoid. Also known as the ensiform cartilage or process.

The ancient Greeks thought the xiphoid looked like the tip of a sword. The word xiphoid is from the Greek xiphos, "straight sword" plus eidos, "like" resulting in "straight sword". Ensiform is from the Latin ensis, "sword" plus forma, "shape" equals "sword shape".

(mathematics is the deductive study of quantities, magnitudes, and shapes as determined by the use of numbers and symbols while every branch of science and engineering depends on mathematics; measurement is the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena and measurement is fundamental to the sciences; to engineering, construction, and other technical fields; and to almost all everyday activities)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “process
adiabatic process
1. The process by which the temperature of the air changes without adding or taking away heat.
2. The changing of sensible air temperature without the gain or loss of heat to or from the surrounding air.
This entry is located in the following units: Geography Terms + (page 1) Meteorology or Weather Terms + (page 1)
Czochralski process, Czochralski method, Czochralski crystal growth
A method of growing large size, high quality semiconductor crystal by slowly lifting a seed crystal from a molten bath of the material under careful cooling conditions.

The most widely used technique for making single-crystal silicon, in which a seed of single-crystal silicon contacts the top of molten silicon.

As the seed is slowly raised, atoms of the molten silicon solidify in the pattern of the seed and extend the single-crystal structure.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 5)
extractive metallurgy, extraction metallurgy; process metallurgy, processing metallurgy
Metallurgy which is concerned with the extraction of metals from their ores, refining, and adapting them for use.

Metals are extracted from ores in three primary ways:

  1. Dry processes; such as, smelting, volatilization, or amalgamation; which is treatment with mercury.
  2. Wet processes, involving chemical reactions.
  3. Electrolytic processes, which work on the principle of eletcrolysis using electricity conducted by a solution or melt to effect chemical changes.
This entry is located in the following unit: Metallurgy Topics or Metal Technology + (page 1)
float-zone process, foat zone process, floatzone process
A method of growing a large-size, high-quality crystal whereby coils heat a polycrystalline ingot placed on top of a single-crystal seed.

As the coils are slowly raised the molten interface beneath the coils becomes single crystal.

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 9)
Hawking process
The emission of particles by a black hole, leading to the eventual explosion of the black hole in a burst of gamma radiation.
This entry is located in the following unit: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 12)
siemens process
A commercial method of making purified silicon.
This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 20)