| procedure | | |
| n. (act) | 1. procedure, process | 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. |
| ~ formula, rule | (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems.; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" |
| n. (act) | 2. operation, 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" |
| n. (communication) | 3. function, procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program. |
| ~ computer software, software, software package, software program, software system, 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. |
| n. (act) | 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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