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PROCEDURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
Example:
certain machine tool operations
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procedure" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
Derivation:
procedural (of or relating to procedure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procedure" is a kind of...):
legal proceeding; proceeding; proceedings ((law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procedure"):
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)
Derivation:
procedural (relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law)
procedural (of or relating to procedure)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A particular course of action intended to achieve a result
Example:
it was a process of trial and error
Synonyms:
procedure; process
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("procedure" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procedure"):
formula; rule ((mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems)
condition; experimental condition (the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition)
modus operandi; routine (an unvarying or habitual method or procedure)
rigamarole; rigmarole (a long and complicated and confusing procedure)
indirection (indirect procedure or action)
stiffening (the act of becoming stiff)
operating procedure (a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation)
chromosome mapping; mapping ((genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome)
medical procedure (a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners)
calculation; computation; computing (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)
experimental procedure (the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment)
emergency procedure ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))
diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)
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)
fingerprinting (the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification)
Bertillon system (a system or procedure for identifying persons)
Derivation:
procedural (of or relating to procedure)
proceed (follow a procedure or take a course)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
Synonyms:
function; procedure; routine; subprogram; subroutine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("procedure" is a kind of...):
computer software; package; software; software package; software program; software system ((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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procedure"):
service routine; utility routine (a routine that can be used as needed)
tracing routine (a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program)
executive routine; supervisory routine (a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines)
reusable routine (a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly)
recursive routine (a routine that can call itself)
random number generator (a routine designed to yield a random number)
library routine (a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library)
contingency procedure (an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises)
cataloged procedure (a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name)
Holonyms ("procedure" is a part of...):
computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)
Derivation:
procedural (of or relating to procedure)
Context examples:
An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy.
(Abortion, NIH)
A procedure in which a person receives blood-forming stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop) from a genetically similar, but not identical, donor.
(Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
A surgical procedure used to treat skin cancer.
(Mohs micrographic surgery, NCI Dictionary)
The sham stimulation procedure was identical to the acoustic one, but participants did not hear any noise during sleep.
(Sound Waves Boost Older Adult' Memory, Deep Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
There had been difficulties of procedure in regard to the warrant.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A procedure in which a person receives stem cells (cells from which all blood cells develop) from a genetically similar, but not identical, donor.
(Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, NCI Dictionary)
A defined procedure for solving a problem.
(Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)
A procedure that captures pictures of blood flow throughout the heart muscle.
(Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)
A procedure used for correction of p-value due to multiple testing.
(Multiple Comparison Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)
A procedure that obtains pictures that reflect blood flow in the heart muscle.
(Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
