Process

A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result; it may occur once-only or be recurrent or periodic.

Things called a process include:

Business and management

 * Business process, activities that produce a specific service or product for customers
 * Business process modeling, activity of representing processes of an enterprise in order to deliver improvements
 * Manufacturing process management, a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured.
 * Process architecture, structural design of processes, applies to fields such as computers, business processes, logistics, project management
 * Process area, related processes within an area which together satisfies an important goal for improvements within that area
 * Process costing, a cost allocation procedure of managerial accounting
 * Process management (project management), a systematic series of activities directed towards planning, monitoring the performance and causing an end result in engineering activities, business process, manufacturing processes or project management
 * Process-based management, is a management approach that views a business as a collection of processes

Law

 * 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

Science and technology

 * The general concept of the scientific process, see scientific method
 * Process theory, the scientific study of processes
 * Industrial processes, consists of the purposeful sequencing of tasks that combine resources to produce a desired output

Biology and psychology

 * Process (anatomy), a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body
 * Biological process, a process of a living organism
 * Cognitive process, such as attention, memory, language use, reasoning, and problem solving
 * Mental process, a function or processes of the mind
 * Neuronal process, also neurite, a projection from the cell body of a neuron

Chemistry

 * Chemical process, a method or means of changing one or more chemicals or chemical compounds
 * Unit process, a step in manufacturing in which chemical reaction takes place

Computing

 * Process (computing), a computer program, or running a program concurrently with other programs
 * Child process, created by another process
 * Parent process
 * Process management (computing), an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS)
 * Processing (programming language), an open-source language and integrated development environment

Mathematics

 * In probability theory:
 * Branching process, a Markov process that models a population
 * Diffusion process, 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
 * Lévy process, a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments
 * Poisson process, a point process consisting of randomly located points on some underlying space
 * Predictable process, a stochastic process whose value is knowable
 * Stochastic process, a random process, as opposed to a deterministic process
 * Wiener process, a continuous-time stochastic process
 * Process calculus, a diverse family of related approaches for formally modeling concurrent systems
 * Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics

Thermodynamics

 * Process function, a mathematical concept used in thermodynamics
 * Thermodynamic process, the energetic evolution of a thermodynamic system
 * Adiabatic process, which proceeds without transfer of heat or matter between a system and its surroundings
 * Isenthalpic process, in which enthalpy stays constant
 * Isobaric process, in which the pressure stays constant
 * Isochoric process, in which volume stays constant
 * Isothermal process, in which temperature stays constant
 * Polytropic process, which obeys the equation $$p v^{\,n} = C$$
 * Quasistatic process, which occurs infinitely slowly, as an approximation

Other uses

 * The Process, a concept in the film 3%
 * Food processing, transformation of raw ingredients, by physical or chemical means into food
 * Language processing in the brain
 * Natural language processing
 * Praxis (process), in philosophy, the process by which a theory or skill is enacted or realized
 * Process (engineering), set of interrelated tasks that transform inputs into outputs
 * Process philosophy, which regards change as the cornerstone of reality
 * Process thinking, a philosophy that focuses on present circumstances
 * Writing process, a concept in writing and composition studies
 * Work in process, goods that are partially completed within a company, awaiting finalization for sale.