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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun processing has 1 sense

• processing(n = noun.process) Array - preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure; "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"
is a kind of physical process, process
has particulars: blowing, data processing, developing, development, purification, refinement, refining, vulcanisation, vulcanization
Derived forms verb process₁, verb process₂

THESAURUS

processing

accounting, analysis, architecture, arrangement, assembly, automatic electronic navigation, basic training, braking, briefing, building, casting, clearing the decks, composition, computation, construction, conversion, coordination, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, equipment, erection, extraction, fabrication, fact distribution, familiarization, fashioning, fixing, forecasts, formation, forming, formulation, foundation, framing, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, inspection, machining, makeready, making, making ready, manipulation, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mobilization, molding, nonlinear calibrations, output measurement, planning, prearrangement, prefabrication, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, producing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying, record keeping, refining, shaping, smelting, spadework, steering, supersonic flow detection, training, treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, workmanship

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