Processing
process , n. (F. proces,L. processus. See Proceed.)
1. The act of proceeding; continued forward
movement; procedure; progress; advance. Long process of
time. Milton.
The thoughts of men are widened with the process
of the suns. Tennyson.
2. A series of actions, motions, or
occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation;
normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the
process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical
process; processes of nature.
Tell her the process of Antonios
end. Shak.
3. A statement of events; a narrative.
(Obs.) Chaucer.
4. (Anat. l.) Any marked
prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone;
anapophysis.
5. (Law) The whole course of
proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the
beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for
bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a
generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Deacons process (from H. Deacon, who
introduced it) (Chem.), a method of obtaining chlorine gas
by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been
previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as
sulphate of copper. -- Final process
(Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law.
Burrill. -- In process, in the condition
of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not
completed. -- Jury process (Law),
the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which
their attendance is enforced. Burrill. --
Leblancs process (Chem.), the process of
manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the
sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with
charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by
roasting with lime. -- Mesne process. See
under Mesne. -- Process milling, the
process of high milling for grinding flour. See under
Milling. -- Reversible process
(Thermodynamics), any process consisting of a cycle of
operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be
performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects.
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