processing
English
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editprocessing (countable and uncountable, plural processings)
- The action of the verb to process.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
- 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
- For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
- The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
- The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
edit- agroprocessing
- auditory processing disorder
- automatic data processing machine
- autoprocessing
- background processing
- batch processing
- bioprocessing
- blast processing
- central processing unit
- command processing overhead time
- coprocessing
- cryo-processing
- cryptoprocessing
- data processing machine
- digital signal processing
- geoprocessing
- glycoprocessing
- graphics processing unit
- histoprocessing
- hydroprocessing
- image processing
- immunoprocessing
- information-processing
- lyoprocessing
- microprocessing
- multiprocessing
- natural language processing
- neural processing unit
- neuroprocessing
- photoprocessing
- postprocessing
- post-processing
- processing time
- quantum processing unit
- query processing
- retroprocessing
- sensory processing sensitivity
- signal processing
- space processing
- teleprocessing
- wood processing
Translations
editaction of the verb to process
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act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures
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Verb
editprocessing
- present participle and gerund of process
References
edit- processing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia