Etymology

By surface analysis, process +‎ -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#PROCESSING.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊsɛsɪŋ/Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCESSINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCESSING
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑsɛsɪŋ/Category:English 3-syllable words#PROCESSINGCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PROCESSING

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Noun

processing (countable and uncountable, plural processings)Category:English lemmas#PROCESSINGCategory:English nouns#PROCESSINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#PROCESSINGCategory:English countable nouns#PROCESSINGCategory:English countable nouns#PROCESSINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROCESSINGCategory:Pages with entries#PROCESSINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PROCESSING

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.

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   • 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.

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2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
3. (computingCategory:en:Computing#PROCESSING) The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.

Verb

processingCategory:English non-lemma forms#PROCESSINGCategory:English verb forms#PROCESSINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PROCESSINGCategory:Pages with entries#PROCESSINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PROCESSING

1. present participle and gerund of process

References

• processing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia