procedure

English Online Dictionary. What means procedure‎? What does procedure mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
• Rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

Synonyms

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine): operation

Hyponyms

• administrative procedure
• (computing): stored procedure

Derived terms

Related terms

• proceed
• process
• procession

Translations

Further reading

• “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• reproduce

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/
• Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

Derived terms

• afzettingsprocedure
• strafprocedure

Descendants

• → Indonesian: prosedur

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure oblique singular, f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• → English: procedure
• French: procédure