procedure
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1 a medical operation (n.) B2 Upper Intermediate Medicinea medical treatment or operation performed by a doctor or surgeon.
a specific surgical or diagnostic intervention performed on a patient.
ExampleThe doctor explained that the heart procedure would take about three hours.
ExampleThe surgical team performed a minimally invasive procedure to repair the damaged valve, significantly reducing the patient's recovery time.
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2 legal or formal rules (n.) C1 Advanced Formal Lawthe formal rules used in a court of law or a large organization.
the body of rules governing the conduct of business in a legislative, judicial, or administrative body.
ExampleThe lawyer argued that the police did not follow proper legal procedure during the arrest.
ExampleParliamentary procedure dictates that a motion must be seconded before it can be opened for general debate among the members.
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3 computing code (n.) C1 Advanced Technical Computinga part of a computer program that performs a specific task.
a sequence of program instructions that perform a specific task, packaged as a unit.
ExampleThe programmer wrote a new procedure to handle the data backup every night.
ExampleThe main program calls a sorting procedure to organize the array before the final results are displayed to the user.
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
- Nounprocedure
- Adjectiveprocedural