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procedure

noun
/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/UK/pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/US

Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

  1. derived from procedo
  2. borrowed from procédure

Definitions

  1. A particular method for performing a task.

    • 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.

  2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

  3. The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain…

    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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

      • Gracious procedures.

    2. That which results

      That which results; issue; product.

      • There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

    3. A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.

    4. A surgical operation.

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Derived

Arndt-Eistert procedure, Bobbitt procedure, civil procedure, collection procedure, criminal procedure, cryoprocedure, Davydov procedure, Evans procedure, Fontan procedure, Frey's procedure, Harada-Ito procedure, Hartmann's procedure, Ing-Manske procedure, Krukenberg procedure, Lowry process, microprocedure, midprocedure, Mitrofanoff procedure, Montreal procedure, Nuss procedure, parliamentary procedure, periprocedure, postprocedure, preprocedure, procedural, procedure call, procedure division, procedure mask, procedure word, process-server, process-serving, Puestow-Gillesby procedure, Puestow procedure, Rastelli procedure, remote procedure call, Scopinaro procedure, security procedure, Sigwart procedure, single justice procedure, standard operating procedure · +4 more

Vish — recursive loop

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

7 hops · closes at procedure

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

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