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語源

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /pɹəˈsi.d͡ʒɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/, [pɹəˈsɪi.d͡ʒə], [pɹəˈsɪ̈i.d͡ʒə]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/
• ハイフネーション: pro‧ced‧ure
• 韻: -iːʒə(ɹ)

名詞

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

   Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

同意語

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine): operation

下位語

• administrative procedure
• (computing): stored procedure

派生語

関連する語

• proceed
• process
• procession

Further reading

• “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• reproduce