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processed

adj
/ˈpɹəʊsɛst/UK/ˈpɹɑsɛst/US/ˈpɹoʊsɛst/CA/pɹəˈsɛst/

Etymology

From process + -ed.

  1. derived from prōcessus
  2. derived from procés
  3. inherited from proces
  4. suffixed as processed — “process + ed”

Definitions

  1. That has completed a required process.

    • The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.
    • The bank returned her processed application by mail.

  2. Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.

    • Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.
    • You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.

  3. simple past and past participle of process

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Derived

cryo-processed, Dutch-processed, hydroprocessed, hyperprocessed, immunoprocessed, microprocessed, nonprocessed, processed cheese, processed food, processed meat, semiprocessed, ultraprocessed, ultra-processed, ultra-processed food

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at processed

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