procedure
See also: procédure
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
PronunciationEdit
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
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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 readingEdit
- “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.
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French procedure.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
procedure f (plural procedures)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: prosedur
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
procedure f
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)
- procedure (particular method for performing a task)