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procedure
noun
an
established
or
official
way
of
doing
something
,
followed
in
a
particular
order
•
Before
boarding
the
plane
,
passengers
go
through
the
security
procedure
at
the
airport
.
Before
boarding
the
plane
,
passengers
go
through
the
security
procedure
at
the
airport
.
•
The
company
updated
its
hiring
procedures
to
make
them
faster
and
fairer
.
The
company
updated
its
hiring
procedures
to
make
them
faster
and
fairer
.
From
French
“
procédure
”,
from
Middle
French
,
ultimately
from
Latin
“
procedere
”
meaning
“
to
go
forward
,
proceed
”.
noun
a
medical
operation
or
treatment
performed
on
a
patient
•
The
dentist
said
the
whole
procedure
would
take
less
than
an
hour
.
The
dentist
said
the
whole
procedure
would
take
less
than
an
hour
.
•
After
the
knee
surgery
procedure
,
Anna
had
to
use
crutches
for
two
weeks
.
After
the
knee
surgery
procedure
,
Anna
had
to
use
crutches
for
two
weeks
.
Specialized
medical
sense
of
“
procedure
”
emerged
in
the
early
20th
century
as
surgery
advanced
.
noun
a
block
of
code
in
a
computer
program
that
performs
a
specific
task
;
subroutine
•
The
programmer
wrote
a
separate
procedure
to
handle
user
input
.
The
programmer
wrote
a
separate
procedure
to
handle
user
input
.
•
If
the
sorting
procedure
is
inefficient
,
the
app
will
feel
slow
.
If
the
sorting
procedure
is
inefficient
,
the
app
will
feel
slow
.
Adopted
in
computer
science
in
the
1950s
to
describe
a
self-contained
set
of
instructions
within
a
larger
program
.