Definition of process

• a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a drivers license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendants attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant