Process Explained

A process (lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes of properties or attributes of an object or system.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} More precisely, and from the most general systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's phase space.

It may refer to:

• Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
• Process (computing), a running program; a task to be executed, especially one which is largely self-contained
• Process (engineering), a set of transformations of input elements into products
• Process (systems engineering)
• Process (philosophy), unifying principles which operate in many different systemic contexts
• Process (science), a method or event that results in a transformation in a physical or biological object, a substance or an organism.
  • Biological process
  • Chemical process
  • Thermodynamic process
• Process (Candy Lo album)
• Business process, a method or system for achieving a commercial result
• Industrial process, a procedure involving chemical or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacture of an item or items
• Process music, music which arises from a process
• Service of process, an official notice of a legal proceeding
• A specific recipe for semiconductor device fabrication is typically referred to as a "process"
• Interactions of Actors is a Process theory

Process may also be:

• Relaxer, a chemical agent that straightens hair (also known as a process haircut), a term primarily used for men

Notes and References

1. Francis Rawle's (1914) revision of John Bouvier (1839), Law Dictionary p.2731: Process
2. "Process"Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition
3. Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr. and William L. Root (1958)An introduction to the theory of Random Signals and Noise

   LCC 57-10020. p.39: Random Processes

4. Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)The Feynman Lectures on Physics

   ISBN 0-201-02010-6p.1-5: Atomic processes

5. F. Reif (1965)Statistical Physics volume 5 of the Berkeley Physics Course

   ISBN 0700486229 pp.49-50, 127-135

6. S. Giedion (1948)Mechanization takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history

   Processed food: pp. 42, 78, 186, 224-5

7. Ovid Eshbach and Mott Souders (eds.) (1936, 1952, 1975) Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals

   ISBN 0-471-24553-4 pp.875-880: processes and state changes for fluids

• Nelson Wax (ed.) (1954) Selected papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes: J. L. Doob, L. S. Ornstein, Ming Chen Wang, S. Chandrasekhar, M. Kac, G. E. Uhlenbeck, S. O. Rice ISBN 0-486-60262-1, which drew upon a symposium on stochastic processes, with applications to physics, documented in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Volume II, No.2, 1949 pp. 150-282

See also

• Business Process Mapping
• Process architecture
• Process control
• Process management
• Process modeling
• Process theory

External links

• Definitions of process on the Web, by Google.
• What is a process, paper by Gerrit Muller, 2007.