(chemistry, historical) An early industrial method of producing sodium carbonate. It involved two stages: production of sodium sulfate from sodium chloride, followed by reaction of the sodium sulfate with coal and calcium carbonate to produce sodium carbonate.

Any of many techniques in which data is retrieved, stored, classified, manipulated, transmitted and/or reported in such a way as to generate information; especially such processing using computers.

(law) A legal concept where a person is ensured all legal rights when deprived of their liberty for a given reason.

plural of background process

The utilization of low gravity and/or high vacuum to carry out various processes in space

(anatomy) A dorsal expansion of the coracoid process which completes the opening for the triosseal canal.

Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals

Any form of information processing whose input and output are both images, such as photographs or frames of video.

(printing) A printing process which uses four specific colored inks: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK), and halftone printing plates, to reproduce a range of colors.

Any process that is not continuous, but is carried out with a discrete amount of material.