procedure

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EtymologyEdit

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
(US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

NounEdit

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; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] 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.

SynonymsEdit

(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

HyponymsEdit

administrative procedure
(computing): stored procedure

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

method for performing a task

Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
Belarusian: працэду́ра f (pracedúra)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 做法 (zh) (zuòfǎ), 方法 (zh) (fāngfǎ)
Czech: postup (cs) m
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Finnish: toimintatapa (fi), menetelmä (fi), menettely (fi), menettelytapa (fi), prosessi (fi), työtapa, metodi (fi)
French: procédé (fr) m, procédure (fr) f
Galician: procedemento (gl) m
German: Verfahren (de) n, Verfahrensweise f, [medizinischer] Eingriff (de) m
Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
Italian: procedura (it) f, iter (it) m, procedimento (it) m, metodo (it) m
Japanese: 手段 (ja) (しゅだん, shudan), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō)
Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha), 수단 (ko) (sudan), 방법 (ko) (bangbeop)
Malay: tatacara (ms), prosedur
Maori: pēheatanga, pēwheatanga, hātepe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fremgangsmåte (no) m, prosedyre m

Nynorsk: prosedyre m
Persian: روال‎ (fa) (ravâl)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: procedură (ro) f, procedeu (ro) n
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), ме́тод (ru) m (métod), мето́дика (ru) f (metódika)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
Swedish: procedur (sv) c, förfarande (sv) n
Thai: วิธี (th) (wí-tii), กรรมวิธี (th)
Tocharian B: upacār
Turkish: metod (tr), yöntem (tr)
Ukrainian: процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra)
Vietnamese: phương pháp (vi)

series of small tasks to accomplish an end

Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Finnish: menettely (fi), menettelytavat
French: procédure (fr) f
German: Prozess (de) m, Vorgehen (de) n, Vorgehensweise (de) f
Italian: procedura (it) f
Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejun), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki), 行程 (ja) (kōtei), 段取り (dandori)
Kikuyu: mũtaratara class 3
Maori: hātepe
Persian: روند‎ (fa) (ravand)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m

set of established forms or methods of an organized body

Arabic: اِجْرَاء‎ m (ijrāʔ)
Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra), на́чин на ра́бота m (náčin na rábota)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Estonian: kord (et)
Finnish: toimintamalli, menettelytavat (fi) pl
French: procédure (fr) f
German: Prozedur (de) f
Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
Italian: procedura (it) f, procedimento (it) m
Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 流儀 (ja) (りゅうぎ, ryūgi), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki)
Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha)
Persian: روال‎ (fa) (revâl)
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: procedură (ro) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
Swedish: procedur (sv) c
Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)

steps taken in a legal proceeding

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Czech: úkony (cs) pl
Finnish: menettely (fi), oikeudenkäyntimenettely, työjärjestys
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m, trámite (es) m
Thai: วิธีพิจารณา (wí-tii-pí-jaa-rá-naa)

computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 子程序 (zh) (zǐchéngxù)
Czech: procedura (cs) f
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Esperanto: proceduro (eo)
Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), proseduuri (fi)
French: fonction (fr) f
German: Unterprogramm n
Greek: υποπρόγραμμα (el) n (ypoprógramma), διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
Hungarian: eljárás (hu), procedúra
Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejyun), 行程 (ja) (kōtē), プロシージャ (ja) (purosīja), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki)
Persian: رویه‎ (fa) (ravie)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: funcțiune (ro) f, funcție (ro) f, subrutină (ro) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), подпрогра́мма (ru) f (podprográmma)
Turkish: yordam (tr)
Vietnamese: thủ tục (vi)

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