pro·ce·dure (pr -s  jr)n. 1. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure. 2. A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures. 3. A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government. 4. Computer Science A set of instructions that performs a specific task; a subroutine or function. [French procédure, from Old French, from proceder, to proceed; see proceed.] |
procedure
Noun
1. a way of doing something, esp. an established method
2. the established form of conducting the business of a legislature
procedural adj
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| Noun | 1. |  procedure - 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"Bertillon system - a system or procedure for identifying persons fingerprinting - the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification genetic fingerprinting, genetic profiling - the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis emergency procedure - (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) experimental procedure - the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" calculation, computation, computing - the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods medical procedure - a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners chromosome mapping, mapping - (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation stiffening - the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance" indirection - indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" rigamarole, rigmarole - a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" modus operandi, routine - an unvarying or habitual method or procedure experimental condition, condition - the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition |
| 2. | procedure - 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" work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" | |
| 3. | procedure - a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program software, software package, software program, software system, computer software, package - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" cataloged procedure - a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name contingency procedure - an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises library routine - a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library random number generator - a routine designed to yield a random number recursive routine - a routine that can call itself reusable routine - a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly executive routine, supervisory routine - a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines tracing routine - a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed | |
| 4. | procedure - a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings bureaucratic procedure, red tape - needlessly time-consuming procedure objection - (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked |
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Translations
procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n (Admin, Law) → procédure f (= method); marche f à suivre, façon f de procéder
n procedure [prəˈsiːdʒə]
the order or method of doing something They followed the usual procedure(s). prosedure إجْراء، أصول، طريقَه процедура procedura procedure; metode das Verfahren διαδικασία procedimiento menetlus شیوه؛ روش menettelytapa procédure נוֹהָל कार्यविधि eljárás(mód) prosedur aðferð procedura, prassi 手順 절차, 수단 procedūra, darbo tvarka/būdas procedūra; process; norise prosedur procedure framgangsmåte; prosedyre sposób postępowania, procedura procedimento procedură процедура procedúra postopek procedura procedur ขั้นตอน işlem 過程，步驟，程序 процедура اسلوب کار، طريقۂ کار thủ tục 过程，步骤，程序
adj proˈcedural
prosedureel إجْرائي процедурен procedurální proceduremæssig Verfahrens-... διαδικαστικός de procedimiento protseduuri- مربوط به شیوه کار menettelytapa- de procédure נוֹהָלִי कार्यविधि संबन्धी ügyrendi, napirendi menurut prosedur sem lÿtur að aðferð/starfsháttum procedurale 手続き上の 절차상의 procedūros, procedūrinis procedūras-; procesuāls tatacara procedureel som angår framgangsmåten proceduralny processual procedural; de procedură процедурный procedurálny proceduralen proceduralan procedurmässig ซึ่งเป็นขั้นตอน işlemsel 程序上的 процедурний طريقظ کار سے متعلق theo thủ tục 程序上的
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