Process vs Explore - What's the difference?
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A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
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, title= (legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
* 1960', Mack Tyner, '''''Process''' Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances'' - Ordinarily a '''process''' plant will use a steam boiler to supply its ' process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
* 1987', J. R. Richards, ''Principles of control system design'' in ''Modelling and control of fermentation '''process'''es'' - The words ''plant'' or '''''process''''' infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical ' process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
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(lb) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
To perform a particular process.
To treat with a substance
To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it as valid.
(mostly British) To walk in a procession.
(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
To examine or investigate something systematically.
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(medicine) To examine diagnostically.
To (seek) experience first hand.
To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
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As verbs the difference between process and explore
is that process is to perform a particular process or process can be (mostly british) to walk in a procession while explore is .As a noun process
is a series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.process
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Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
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- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
Derived terms
* due process * due process of law * due-process * process color, process colour * process hot water * process server * process upsetVerb
(es)- We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
Etymology 2
Verb
(es)Anagrams
* ----explore
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Verb
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- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.