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What does process mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word process? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
  2. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
  3. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
  4. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
  5. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
  6. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
  7. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
  8. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
Verb
  1. (transitive) to perform a particular process on a thing
  2. (transitive) to retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
  3. (transitive) to think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
Verb
  1. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.
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