Process

Process or processing may refer to:

Biology and psychology

• Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
• Biological process, a process of a living organism
• Mental process, functions or processes of the mind
• Power process, a process necessary to fulfill a psychological need to exert power

Business

• Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
• Business process management, a management approach that aligns all aspects of an organization with clients needs
• Business process mapping, activities involved in defining a business entity
• Business process modeling, in systems engineering and software engineering, the representation of enterprise processes
• Business process reengineering, a business management strategy
• Process management, planning and monitoring the performance of a process

Computing and Information theory

• Child process
• Computer data processing
• Information processing
• Meta-process modeling, a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering
• Process architecture, the structural design of process systems
• Process capability
• Process capability index, a statistical measure of process capability:
• Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
• Process flowsheeting, the use of computer aids, essential to process design
• Process group, in POSIX-conformant operating systems, a collection of one or more processes
• Process identifier
• Process isolation
• Process migration
• Process modeling, processes of the same nature classified together into a model
• Process state
• Processing (programming language), programming language and IDE
• Software development process

Engineering

• Array processing, the processing of signals from arrays of sensors
• Analog signal processing, in engineering, any signal processing conducted on analog signals by analog means
• Audio signal processing, signal processing of electrical signals representing sound, such as speech or music
• Chemical process modeling, a computer modeling technique used in chemical engineering process design
• Image processing, processing of images from digital cameras, computers and various imaging systems
• Isentropic process, a process in engineering analysis and calculation
• Process control, a statistics and engineering discipline that deals with controlling the output of processes
• Process design, the design of processes for desired physical and/or chemical transformation of materials
• Process (engineering), in engineering, a set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
• Process engineering, focuses on the design, operation, control, and optimization of chemical, physical, and biological processes
• Process flow diagram, a diagram used in chemical and process engineering to show the flow of plant processes and equipment
• Process variable, in engineering, the current status of a process under control
• Process integration, a term in chemical engineering which emphasizes the unity of the process
• Signal processing, in system engineering, the operations on or analysis of signals, time-varying, or spatially varying physical quantities
• Video processing, processing and interpreting moving pictures

Industrial and manufacturing

• Bessemer process, industrial process for steel and pig iron
• Food processing, transforming food ingredients into other forms
• Haber process, industrial implementation of the reaction of nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas
• Kroll process, a pyrometallurgical industrial process used to produce metallic titanium
• Manufacturing process management, technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured
• Process control system, a general term that encompasses several types of control systems used in industrial production
• Process manufacturing, manufacturing concerned with formulas and recipes
• Process optimization
• Process safety, focuses on preventing fires, explosions and accidental chemical releases in chemical process facilities
• Process simulation, used for the design, development, analysis, and optimization of technical processes
• Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place
• List of chemical process simulators
• List of industrial processes

Law

• Abuse of process
• 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

Music

• Process music, music which arises from a process
• Process (Candy Lo album)

Philosophy

• Process philosophy, an "ontology of becoming" developed by Whitehead
• Process ontology, a description of the components and relationships that make up a process
• Process theology, a theology in which God is affected by temporal processes

Science and statistics

• Adiabatic process, in thermodynamics, any process occurring without gain or loss of heat within a system
• Branching process, a process in probability theory
• Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
• Cognitive process, in science, a group of mental processes that includes attention, memory, producing and understanding language, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making
• Diffusion process, in probability theory, a diffusion process is 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
• Isenthalpic process, a process that proceeds without any change in enthalpy
• Isobaric process, a thermodynamic process in which the pressure remains constant
• Isochoric process, a thermodynamic process in which the volume of the closed system undergoing such a process remains constant
• Isothermal process, a change in a system in which the temperature remains constant
• Lévy process, in probability theory, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
• Poisson process, a process in probability theory
• Polytropic process, a thermodynamic process that is reversible
• Predictable process, in probability theory, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
• Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
• Process function, mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
• Process (science), knowledge of the complex subject matter of science and the design of methodologically sound scientific experiments
• Process theory, the scientific study of processes
• Quasistatic process, a thermodynamic process that happens infinitely slowly
• Statistical process control - quality control using statistical methods to monitor and control production
• Stochastic process, in probability theory, a random process, as contrasted to a deterministic process
• Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
• Wiener process, in mathematics, a continuous-time stochastic process
• Digital signal processing (DSP), the mathematical manipulation of an information signal to modify or improve it
• Statistical signal processing, analyzing and extracting information from signals and noise based on their stochastic properties

Writing

• Praxis (process)
• Process theory of composition, focuses on writing as a process rather than a product
• Writing process, a key concept in the teaching of writing and in the research of composition studies

Other

• Molding (process), the process of manufacturing by shaping pliable raw material using a rigid frame or model
• Process (iOS application), photography processing software
• Process art, the process of the formation of art
• Process duct work, conveys large volumes of air from processing equipment to mills, or other process equipment
• Process model (Australia), process models in Australia to invoke the involvement of the public
• Reading (process), the process of reading
• Speech processing, the processing and interpreting of spoken words
• The Process (collective), an art and philosophy collective formed in the early 1990s