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procedural

adj
/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/

Etymology

From procedure + -al.

  1. derived from procedo
  2. borrowed from procédure
  3. formed as procedural — “procedure + -al”

Definitions

  1. Related to procedure.

    • The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
    • An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.

  2. Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.

    • a procedural texture
    • procedural terrain

  3. A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical…

    A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.

    • It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
    • David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Ellipsis of police procedural.

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Derived

cedural, multiprocedural, nonprocedural, periprocedural, postprocedural, preprocedural, procedural due process, proceduralism, proceduralist, procedurality, procedural law, procedurally, procedural memory, unprocedural, police procedural

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at procedural. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at procedural. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at procedural

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA