check checkout check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
diagnostic procedure diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
emergency procedure | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) |
experimental procedure | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment |
double-blind procedure double-blind experiment double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
Gram's method Gram method Gram's procedure Gram's stain Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
operation procedure | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work, the operations in building a house, certain machine tool operations |
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 |
desensitization technique desensitisation technique desensitization procedure desensitisation procedure systematic desensitization systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
object-oriented programming object-oriented programing | creating a program that can use and support objects |
procedure | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
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 |
medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure standard operating procedure SOP standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
bureaucratic procedure red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
cloze procedure cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
statistical method statistical procedure | a method of analyzing or representing statistical data, a procedure for calculating a statistic |
routine subroutine subprogram procedure function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
cataloged procedure | a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name |
contingency procedure | an alternative to the normal procedure, triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises |
object-oriented database management system | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
object-oriented database | a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
order rules of order parliamentary law parliamentary procedure | a body of rules followed by an assembly |
application-oriented language problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
computer language computer-oriented language machine language machine-oriented language | a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
object-oriented programming language object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure, C is an object-oriented programming language that is an extension of C |
oriented orientated | adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances, sometimes used in combination, the house had its large windows oriented toward the ocean view, helping freshmen become oriented to college life, the book is value-oriented throughout |