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Process ( Lat. processus - movement) is a naturally occurring or designed sequence of Change s of Properties or Attribute s of an Object or System
Francis Rawle's (1914) revision of John Bouvier (1839), ''Law Dictionary'' p.2731: Process

"Process"
''Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition''

Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr. and William L. Root (1958)
''An introduction to the theory of Random Signals and Noise''
LCC 57-10020. p.39: Random Processes

Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)
''The Feynman Lectures on Physics''
ISBN 0-201-02010-6
p.1-5: Atomic processes

F. Reif (1965)
''Statistical Physics'' volume 5 of the Berkeley Physics Course
ISBN 0700486229 pp.49-50, 127-135

S. Giedion (1948)
''Mechanization takes Command: a contribution to anonymous history''
Processed food: pp. 42, 78, 186, 224-5

Ovid Eshbach and Mott Souders (eds.) (1936, 1952, 1975)
''Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals''
ISBN 0-471-24553-4 pp.875-880: processes and state changes for fluids
. More precisely, and from the most general Systemic perspective, every process is representable as a particular trajectory (or part thereof) in a system's Phase Space .

Every Measurement is a process. The process of measurement is the fundamental concept in Physics , and, in practice, in every field of science and engineering.

For the above goal-oriented reason, from the industrial managerial point of view, the following inputs can be initially applied in an engineering process specification: people, machines and tools, materials, energy, information, professional knowledge, capital, time and space
Elihu M. Goldratt (1992)
''The Goal: a process of ongoing improvement''
ISBN 0-88427-061-0
as cited in Robert K. Wysocki et.al. ''Effective Project Management'' ISBN 0-471-43221-0
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  • From an engineering perspective, industrial and environmental processes relate to the sequence of


  • From mathematical and '''physical''' perspectives processes are categorized, for example, as continuous, discrete, convergent, asymptotic, incremental, Singular , Recurrent and Periodic .



A singular process would be one which has a singular property or occurs rarely.

Few processes in nature can be considered singular. Most processes found in nature are recurrent, or repeat more than once. Recurring processes which repeat at a constant rate are considered periodic. The more periodic a process is the more useful it is as the basis of a Clock .
Various specific processes:



NOTES AND REFERENCES


  • Nelson Wax (ed.) (1954) ''Selected papers on Noise and Stochastic Processes: J. L. Doob, L. S. Ornstein, Ming Chen Wang, S. Chandrasekhar, M. Kac, G. E. Uhlenbeck, S. O. Rice'' ISBN 0-486-60262-1, which drew upon a symposium on stochastic processes, with applications to physics, documented in ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society'' Series B, Volume II, No.2, 1949 pp. 150-282



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