procedure
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See also: procédure
English
Etymology
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Pronunciation
Noun
procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)
- A particular method for performing a task.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- 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.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) 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.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. , London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
- Gracious procedures.
- (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
- There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
Synonyms
- (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
- (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
- (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
- (medicine): operation
Hyponyms
- administrative procedure
- (computing): stored procedure
Derived terms
- Arndt-Eistert procedure
- Bobbitt procedure
- civil procedure
- collection procedure
- criminal procedure
- Davydov procedure
- Evans procedure
- Fontan procedure
- Frey's procedure
- Harada-Ito procedure
- Hartmann's procedure
- Ing-Manske procedure
- Krukenberg procedure
- Lowry process
- Mitrofanoff procedure
- Montreal procedure
- Nuss procedure
- [[obliterative procedure
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- procedure division
- procedure mask
- procedure word
- process-server
- process-serving
- Puestow-Gillesby procedure
- Puestow procedure
- remote procedure call
- Scopinaro procedure
- security procedure
- Sigwart procedure
- single justice procedure
- surgical procedure
- voice procedure alphabet
- Whipple procedure
Related terms
Translations
method for performing a task
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series of small tasks to accomplish an end
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set of established forms or methods of an organized body
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steps taken in a legal proceeding
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computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task
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Further reading
- “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French procedure.
Pronunciation
Noun
procedure f (plural procedures)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: prosedur
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
procedure f
Old French
Noun
procedure oblique singular, f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)
- procedure (particular method for performing a task)