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in process
在進行中,在加工製作
Proc·ess, n.
1. The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. “Long process of time.”
The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. --Tennyson.
2. A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.
Tell her the process of Antonio's end. --Shak.
3. A statement of events; a narrative. [Obs.]
4. Anat. & Zool. Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.
5. Law The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
Deacon's process
Final process Practice, a writ of execution in an action at law. --Burrill.
In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed.
Jury process Law, the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is enforced. --Burrill.
Leblanc's process Chem., the process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by roasting with lime.
Mesne process. See under Mesne.
Process milling, the process of high milling for grinding flour. See under Milling.
Reversible process Thermodynamics, any process consisting of a cycle of operations such that the different operations of the cycle can be performed in reverse order with a reversal of their effects.
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