procedural

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See also: procédural

English

Etymology

procedure +‎ -al

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Adjective

procedural (comparative more procedural, superlative most procedural)

  1. Related to procedure.
    The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
  2. (computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
    a procedural texture
    procedural terrain

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Noun

procedural (plural procedurals)

  1. (literature, film) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
    • 2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:
      It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
    • 2023 September 3, Peter Bradshaw, “The Killer review – terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman […]
  2. (specifically) Ellipsis of police procedural.
    • 2015 June 16, David Stubbs, “Watching the detectives: why the police procedural is more popular than ever”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      The Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to drink it in like cocoa.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French procédural.

Adjective

procedural m or n (feminine singular procedurală, masculine plural procedurali, feminine and neuter plural procedurale)

  1. procedural

Declension

Declension of procedural
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite procedural procedurală procedurali procedurale
definite proceduralul procedurala proceduralii proceduralele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite procedural procedurale procedurali procedurale
definite proceduralului proceduralei proceduralilor proceduralelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾoθeduˈɾal/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾoseduˈɾal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: pro‧ce‧du‧ral

Adjective

procedural m or f (masculine and feminine plural procedurales)

  1. procedural
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