pro·ce·dure
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| 1. | an act or a manner of proceeding in any action or process; conduct. |
| 2. | a particular course or mode of action. |
| 3. | any given mode of conducting legal, parliamentary, or other business, esp. litigation and judicial proceedings. |
| 4. | Computers.
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n.
[French procédure, from Old French, from proceder, to proceed; see proceed.] |
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procedure
1611, "fact or manner of proceeding," from Fr. procédure "manner of proceeding" (1197), from O.Fr. proceder (see proceed). Meaning "method of conducting business in Parliament" is from 1839. First appearance of procedural is 1889.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| procedure | |
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| 1. | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" |
| 2. | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation] |
| 3. | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine] |
| 4. | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
procedure [prəˈsiːdʒə] noun
the order or method of doing something
Example: They followed the usual procedure(s).
Example: They followed the usual procedure(s).
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procedure
subroutine
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Procedure
Pro*ce"dure\, n. [F. proc['e]dure. See Proceed.]1. The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience." --South. 2. A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures." --I. Taylor. 3. That which results; issue; product. [Obs.] --Bacon.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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