procedure
nounUK /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/ · CA, US /pɹəˈsi.d͡ʒɚ/
Etymology From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
7 senses
- 1A particular method for performing a task.
- 2A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- 3The set of established forms or methods of an organized…
- 4The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 5That which results; issue; product.
- 6A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is…
- 7A surgical operation.
1
A particular method for performing a task.
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
2
A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3
The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
4
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- Gracious procedures.1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
5
Obsolete That which results; issue; product.
- There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
6
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A subroutine coded to perform a specific task, which is not permitted a return value when distinguished from a function.
7
Medicine, Sciences A surgical operation.
- Derived terms
45 terms
Arndt-Eistert procedure, Bobbitt procedure, civil procedure, collection procedure, criminal procedure, cryoprocedure, Davydov procedure, Evans procedure, Fontan procedure, Frey's procedure, Harada-Ito procedure, Hartmann's procedure, Ing-Manske procedure, Krukenberg procedure, Lowry process, microprocedure, midprocedure, Mitrofanoff procedure, Montreal procedure, Nuss procedure, Edeleanu process, parliamentary procedure, periprocedure, postprocedure, preprocedure, procedural, procedure call, procedure division, procedure mask, procedure word, process-server, process-serving, Puestow-Gillesby procedure, Puestow procedure, Rastelli procedure, remote procedure call, Scopinaro procedure, security procedure, Sigwart procedure, single justice procedure, standard operating procedure, subprocedure, surgical procedure, voice procedure alphabet, Whipple procedure- Related terms
- proceed, process, procession
- Hyponyms
- administrative procedure, stored procedure