process
physical process | a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states, events now in process, the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls |
| camera care | keeping a camera in good working order |
service serving
service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
mathematical process
mathematical operation
operation | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods, the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation, they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
due process
due process of law | (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles, based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards |
box camera
box Kodak | a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box |
camera
photographic camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
camera lens
optical lens | a lens that focuses the image in a camera |
| camera lucida | an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it |
| camera obscura | a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface |
| camera tripod | a tripod used to support a camera |
| candid camera | a miniature camera with a fast lens |
| darkroom | a room in which photographs are developed |
| digital camera | a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction |
| flash camera | a camera with a photoflash attachment |
motion-picture camera
movie camera
cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
| point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
| portrait camera | a camera with a portrait lens |
| reflex camera | camera that allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed |
Schmidt telescope
Schmidt camera | reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed |
| sound camera | a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images |
television camera
tv camera
camera | television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam |
| camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
| compulsory process | the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court |
| right to due process | a right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment |
acromion
acromial process | the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade |
| xiphoid process | smallest of the three parts of the breastbone, articulates with the corpus sternum and the seventh rib |
alveolar ridge
gum ridge
alveolar process | a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth |
process
outgrowth
appendage | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant, a bony process |
condylar process
condyloid process
mandibular condyle | the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skull |
coronoid process
processus coronoideus | a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone |
| coronoid process of the mandible | the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle |
appendix
vermiform appendix
vermiform process
cecal appendage | a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch |
mastoid
mastoid process
mastoid bone
mastoidal | process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull |
| styloid process | extends from the base of the temporal bone |
| pterygoid process | two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone |
| zygomatic process | a slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch |
| transverse process | one of two processes that extend from each vertebra and provide the point of articulation for the ribs |
| odontoid process | a toothlike process at the back of nd vertebra of the neck |
olecranon
olecranon process | process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended |
| Benday process | a photoengraving technique for adding shading or texture or tone to a printed image |
process
cognitive process
mental process
operation
cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity, an operation that affects mental contents, the process of thinking, the cognitive operation of remembering |
| process unconscious process | a mental process that you are not directly aware of, the process of denial |
| basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
| representational process | any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else |
| higher cognitive process | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use |
thinking
thought
thought process
cerebration
intellection
mentation | the process of using your mind to consider something carefully, thinking always made him frown, she paused for thought |