Dictionary Definition
processing n : preparing or putting through a
prescribed procedure; "the processing of newly arrived immigrants";
"the processing of ore to obtain minerals"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The action of the verb to process.
- The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
Derived terms
Translations
action of the verb to process
- Czech: zpracování
- Finnish: prosessointi
- German: Verarbeitung
- Korean: 처리 (cheori)
- Portuguese: processamento
act of taking something through a set of
prescribed procedures
- Finnish: prosessointi
- Portuguese: processamento
Verb
processing- present participle of process
Extensive Definition
Processing typically describes the act of taking
something through an established and usually routine set of
procedures to convert it from one form to another, as a
manufacturing procedure, such as processing milk into cheese. Processing can also refer
to administrative procedure such as processing paperwork to grant a mortgage
loan.
Processing can refer to:
- Data processing
- Food processing
- Geometry processing
- Information processing
- Process industries
- Processing (Chinese materia medica), the technique of altering the properties of crude drugs by such means as roasting, honey frying, wine frying, earth frying, vinegar frying, calcining, or other means
- Processing (programming language)
- Signal processing
- Word processing
processing in German: Verarbeitung
processing in Korean: 가공
processing in Hebrew: עיבוד
processing in Japanese: 加工
processing in Polish: Przetwarzanie
processing in Portuguese: Processamento
processing in Sindhi: پردازڪاري
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accounting, analysis, architecture, arrangement, assembly, automatic electronic
navigation, basic training, braking, briefing, building, casting, clearing the decks,
composition,
computation,
construction,
conversion, coordination, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, equipment, erection, extraction, fabrication, fact
distribution, familiarization,
fashioning, fixing, forecasts, formation, forming, formulation, foundation, framing, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, inspection, machining, makeready, making, making ready, manipulation, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mobilization, molding, nonlinear calibrations,
output measurement, planning, prearrangement, prefabrication, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary
act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory
study, preparing,
prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, producing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying, record keeping,
refining, shaping, smelting, spadework, steering, supersonic flow
detection, training,
treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, workmanship