process

To proceed against by legal process; summon in a court of law.

To reproduce, as a drawing, etc., by any mechanical process, especially by a photographic process. See photo-process.

In leather-making, to treat or soak in liquor.

A proceeding or moving forward; progressive movement; gradual advance; continuous proceeding.

Course; lapse; a passing or elapsing; passage, as of time.

Manner of proceeding or happening; way in which something goes on; course or order of events.

An action, operation, or method of treatment applied to something; a series of actions or experiments: as, a chemical process; a manufacturing process; mental process.

Series of motions or changes going on, as in growth, decay, etc.: as, the process of vegetation; the process of decomposition.

In law: The summons, mandate, or command by which a defendant or a thing is brought before the court for litigation: so called as being the primary part of the proceedings, by which the rest is directed.

The whole course of proceedings in a cause, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the original writ to the end of the suit.