processing

The action of the verb to process.

Noun

  1. The action of the verb to process.
    • Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo...
    • For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying...
  2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
  3. The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.

Origin

By surface analysis, process + -ing.

Forms

processings

Hyponyms

data processing parallel processing word processing

Derived

agroprocessing auditory processing disorder automatic data processing machine autoprocessing background processing batch processing bioprocessing blast processing central processing unit command processing overhead time coprocessing cryo-processing cryptoprocessing data processing machine enzymatic processing geoprocessing glycoprocessing graphics processing unit histoprocessing hydroprocessing image processing immunoprocessing information processing information-processing

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of process