PROCESSING : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: PROCESSING	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for PROCESSING
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
processing n preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure; "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
processing Performing some predefined sequence of operations on an input to produce an output or change of internal state; activity specifically involving the computer's {CPU}. The term is often qualified: "{data processing}" treats {digital} data, "{signal processing}" treats {analog} data (possibly in digital form), "{word processing}" takes in typed human language input and produces digital documents, {image processing} transforms digital {images}. (2003-10-23)