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processing

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Word definitions for processing in dictionaries

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n. preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure; "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"

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Processing (, or ) in Chinese materia medica ( Chinese herbology ) is the technique of altering the properties of crude medicines by processing using heat and combination with various materials in a kind of alchemical approach to preparation.

Usage examples of processing.

Scuttlebutt had it that the stockpiles of antihydrogen were sufficient for only eighteen months of naval operations, a stockpile only sporadically replaced by daring raids on Mollie processing plants.

Mollies are evidently getting sick of our, ah, requisitioning their antihydrogen from the scattered processing plants in their cluster.

And being located right next to an antihydrogen processing facility, he very much doubted there would be any power shortages here.

His auditory processing was exceptionally weak, although examination by a pediatric audiologist found his hearing acuity to be within normal limits.

Bundles of data that had waited, circulating unexamined in the box of valves, became suddenly relevant, interacting with this extraordinary new mode of calculation, this autotelic processing.

He moved into a tiny, dingy room in Camden, where his flatmate was an affable, tubby man called Benjy who earned his living processing parking fines.

According to one story, which I desperately hope is exaggerated, fifteen hundred children per month were being killed in the state of Bihar, their bones then sent to Calcutta for processing and export.

As she has just explained to you, however, Bolos in hyper-heuristic mode have extremely high processing rates, by Human standards.

A couple of experienced squaws would already have had both buffalos skinned, gutted, butchered, and all of the meat prepared for immediate consumption or further processing.

The rows of baby-blue and white cabinets looked just as they had the night of the cutover, only then he had left them brain dead and now he found them alive, swiftly and silently processing calls, and he was satisfied.

Four computer stations occupied the forward and aft walls, and the outside wall was filled with the daunting array of processing equipment needed to prepare samples for geochemical analysis.

Mary had been processing her own malt in her malthouse at Strickland Falls, crushing and preparing the barley mash using the power from the water mill she had constructed.

It was both a processing node and a microscale watch-post, designed to integrate and react to data gathered by scout Makers.

Unless, that is, it has more than one processor running, in which case multitasking can be truly parallel processing.

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