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- a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end步骤, 程序; 方法：
military operations could jeopardize the peace process.
军事行动可能危害和平进程。
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- a natural or involuntary series of changes（自然或偶然的）变化过程：
the ageing process.
衰老过程。
1.2
- a systematic series of mechanized or chemical operations that are performed in order to produce or manufacture something加工; 工序：
the modern block printer needs to accommodate all the traditional factory processes in one shop.
如今的刻版印刷商必须在一个车间里容纳所有传统工序。
1.3
- a series of interdependent operations carried out by computer（计算机的）（操作）进程。
1.4
- as modifier Printing relating to or denoting printing using ink in three colours (cyan, magenta, and yellow) and black to produce a complete range of colour【印刷】三原色的; 三色版的：
process inks.
三色油墨。
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- Law a summons or writ requiring a person to appear in court【律】传票。
3
- Biology & Anatomy a natural appendage or outgrowth on or in an organism, such as a protuberance on a bone【生, 剖】端突, 突起。
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- perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on (something) in order to change or preserve it对…进行加工：
the various stages in processing the wool.
羊毛加工的各个阶段。
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- deal with (someone) using an official and established procedure（按正式程序）处理（某人）; 审核, 检查：
the immigration authorities who processed him.
对他进行审核的移民当局。
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- Computing operate on (data) by means of a program【计算机】处理（数据）。
短语
be in the process of doing something
- be continuing with an action already started在…的进程中：
a hurricane that was in the process of devastating South Carolina.
正在肆虐南卡罗来纳州的飓风。
in the process
- as an unintended part of a course of action在此过程中（表示一种未想到或不希望的情况）：
she would make him pay for this, even if she killed herself in the process.
她一定要让他为此付出代价, 哪怕在此过程中自己可能会丧命。
in process of time
- as time goes on随着时间的推移, 逐渐。
派生词
processable
adjective词源
Middle English: from Old French proces,from Latin processus 'progression，course'，from the verb procedere （see PROCEED）. Current senses of the verb date from the late 19th cent.
no obj.,with adverbial of direction
- walk or march in procession列队行进：
they processed down the aisle.
他们列队穿过通道。
词源
early 19th cent.: back-formation from PROCESSION.