noun
a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
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events now in process
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the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls
• Syn: ↑process
• Hypernyms: ↑physical entity
• Hyponyms:
↑phenomenon, ↑chelation, ↑dealignment, ↑decrease, ↑decrement, ↑degeneration, ↑devolution, ↑development, ↑evolution, ↑economic process, ↑encapsulation, ↑execution, ↑instruction execution, ↑human process, ↑increase, ↑increment, ↑growth, ↑industrial process, ↑irreversible process, ↑iteration, ↑looping, ↑loop, ↑natural process, ↑natural action, ↑action, ↑activity, ↑operation, ↑functioning, ↑performance, ↑organic process, ↑biological process, ↑photography, ↑processing, ↑reversible process, ↑sensitization, ↑sensitisation, ↑shaping, ↑defining, ↑variation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.