'In process' definitions:
Definition of 'In process'
From: GCIDE
- Process \Proc"ess\, n. [F. proc[`e]s, L. processus. See Proceed.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature. [1913 Webster]
- Tell her the process of Antonio's end. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Anat. & Zool.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial. [1913 Webster]
- Deacon's process [from H. Deacon, who introduced it] (Chem.), a method of obtaining chlorine gas by passing hydrochloric acid gas over heated slag which has been previously saturated with a solution of some metallic salt, as sulphate of copper.
- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. --Burrill.
- In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed.
- Jury process (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced. --Burrill.
- Leblanc's process (Chem.), the process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by roasting with lime.
- Mesne process. See under Mesne.
- Process milling, the process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling.
- Reversible process (Thermodynamics), any process consisting of a cycle of operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'in process'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- acting,
- active,
- assumed,
- at work,
- brewing,
- chanced,
- forthcoming,
- functional,
- functioning,
- going,
- going on,
- in embryo,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in preparation,
- in production,
- in progress,
- in the oven,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- on foot,
- on stream,
- on the anvil,
- on the fire,
- on the way,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operational,
- running,
- under construction,
- under revision,
- under way,
- undertaken,
- working
Words containing 'In process'
- Process,
- Procession,
- Processioning,
- Processive,
- processed,
- processing,
- Barrel process,
- Basic process,
- Bell process,
- Bitumen process,
- Carbon process,
- Collodion process,
- Deacon's process,
- Direct process,
- Dongola process,
- Ensiform process,
- Final process,
- Flotation process,
- Gayley process,
- Gelatin process,
- German process,
- Harvey process,
- Jury process,
- Krupp process,
- Leblanc's process,
- Manhes process,
- Markoff process,
- Markov process,
- Mesne process,
- Niepce's process,
- Pattinson's process,
- Payne's process,
- Process milling,
- Process plate,
- Procession week,
- Pterygoid process,
- Reversible process,
- Styloid process,
- Thomas process,
- Thomson process,
- To serve a process,
- Triger process,
- Trustee process,
- Washoe process,
- Weldon's process,
- Zygomatic process,
- acheson process,
- acromial process,
- adiabatic process,
- alveolar process,
- background processing,
- batch processing,
- benday process,
- bessemer process,
- biological process,
- bodily process,
- body process,
- chemical process,
- cognitive process,
- compulsory process,
- condylar process,
- condyloid process,
- coronoid process,
- cyanide process,
- data processing,
- decoction process,
- due process,
- economic process,
- factorizing process,
- foreground processing,
- fractional process,
- geologic process,
- geological process,
- haber process,
- human process,
- industrial process,
- information processing,
- irreversible process,
- judicial process,
- linguistic process,
- list processing,
- mastoid process,
- mathematical process,
- mental process,
- metabolic process,
- mineral processing,
- natural process,
- odontoid process,
- olecranon process,
- ore processing,
- organic process,
- parallel processing,
- pathologic process,
- pathological process,
- peace process,
- photogelatin process,
- physical process,
- plant process,
- printing process,
- priority processing,
- process cheese,
- process of monition,
- process printing,
- processed cheese,
- processing time,
- psychoanalytic process,
- pyrochemical process,
- representational process,
- serial processing,
- service of process,
- social process,
- solvay process,
- stochastic process,
- surgical process,
- thought process,
- transverse process,
- unconscious process,
- vermiform process,
- word processing,
- xiphoid process,
- Procession of the Holy Ghost,
- Spinous process of a vertebra,
- administrative data processing,
- automatic data processing,
- basic cognitive process,
- business data processing,
- central processing unit,
- command processing overhead,
- coronoid process of the mandible,
- distributed data processing,
- dry plate process,
- due process of law,
- electronic data processing,
- higher cognitive process,
- information processing system,
- integrated data processing,
- natural language processing,
- process of foreign attachment,
- process-server,
- right to due process,
- semi-processed,
- stationary stochastic process,
- word processing system,
- Bell-Krupp process,
- Bower-Barff process,
- Dry-plate process,
- Siemens-Martin process,
- Taylor-White process,
- automatic data processing system,
- command processing overhead time,
- dutch-processed cocoa,
- haber-bosch process,
- list-processing language,
- natural language processing application,
- open-hearth process,
- real-time processing,
- remote-access data processing