nouns
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
"the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
"the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
is a type of (narrower)
(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked