Process and Evolution

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A statement of events; a narrative.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
• (n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

noun

• A particular course of action intended to achieve a result.
  • usage: "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
  • synonyms: procedure
• Psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. (
  • usage: "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
  • synonyms: cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
• A writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant.
  • synonyms: summons
• A mental process that you are not directly aware of.
  • usage: "the process of denial"
  • synonyms: unconscious process
• A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant.
  • usage: "a bony process"
  • synonyms: outgrowth, appendage
• A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states.
  • usage: "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"
  • synonyms: physical process

verb

• Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
  • usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
  • synonyms: treat
• Deal with in a routine way.
  • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
• Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
  • usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
• Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
  • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • synonyms: action, sue, litigate
• March in a procession.
  • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • synonyms: march
• Shape, form, or improve a material.
  • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • synonyms: work, work on
• Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
  • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
  • synonyms: serve, swear out

noun

• A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage. )
  • usage: "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer"
  • synonyms: development
• Biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms. (.
  • synonyms: organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis

• (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
• (n.) The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud or an animal from the egg.
• (n.) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.
• (n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.
• (n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.
• (n.) A series of things unrolled or unfolded.
• (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
• (n.) A prescribed movement of a body of troops or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.