processing

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, process +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊsɛsɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑsɛsɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

processing (countable and uncountable, plural processings)

1. The action of the verb to process.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

   • 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:

     For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.

2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
3. The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.

Hyponyms

• data processing
• parallel processing
• word processing

Derived terms

• agroprocessing
• auditory processing disorder
• automatic data processing machine
• autoprocessing
• background processing
• batch processing
• bioprocessing
• blast processing
• central processing unit
• command processing overhead time
• coprocessing
• cryo-processing
• cryptoprocessing
• data processing machine
• enzymatic processing
• geoprocessing
• glycoprocessing
• graphics processing unit
• histoprocessing
• hydroprocessing
• image processing
• immunoprocessing
• information-processing
• in-processing
• lyoprocessing
• microprocessing
• multiprocessing
• natural language processing
• neural processing unit
• neuroprocessing
• photoprocessing
• post-processing
• postprocessing
• processing time
• processing unit
• quantum processing unit
• query processing
• retort processing
• retroprocessing
• sensory processing sensitivity
• signal processing
• space processing
• teleprocessing
• time reversal signal processing
• wood processing

Translations

action of the verb to process

Catalan: processament m Chinese: Mandarin: 處理 / 处理 (zh) (chǔlǐ) Czech: zpracování (cs) n Finnish: prosessointi (fi), käsittely (fi), käsittely (fi) German: Verarbeitung (de) f Greek: επεξεργασία (el) f (epexergasía) Hindi: प्रसंस्करण m (prasanskaraṇ) Hungarian: feldolgozás (hu) Irish: próiseáil f Korean: 처리 (ko) (cheori) Norwegian: Bokmål: bearbeidelse m Portuguese: processamento (pt) m Romanian: prelucrare (ro) f, procesare (ro) f Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka) Serbo-Croatian: obrada (sh) f Spanish: procesamiento m

act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures

Finnish: prosessointi (fi), käsittely (fi) French: traitement (fr) m Norwegian: Bokmål: prosessering m or f Nynorsk: prosessering f Polish: obróbka (pl) f Portuguese: processamento (pt) m Russian: обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka) Serbo-Croatian: procesuiranje n

Verb

processing

1. present participle and gerund of process

References

• processing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia