Procedure
A procedure is a series of activities, tasks, steps, calculations, decisions[?] and other processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome. Following a procedure should produce repeatable results for the same input conditions.Procedures are also called instructions or sometimes recipes when they are recorded. They may also be known as methods.
For example, baking a cake can be a procedure that consists of the following steps:
- Opening the mix box.
- Mixing the batter.
- Pre-heating the oven.
- Putting the cake in.
- Removing it when it's done.
In mathematics and science, a procedure, or algorithm, is a sequence of tasks or calculations that accomplish some goal.
In computer science, procedure is a common term for subprogram.
In law, procedure is the body of law and rules used in the administration of justice in the court system, see: civil procedure and criminal procedure.
See also: HowTo, Recipe
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time you gaze upon it, that you are wealthy and powerful--you commanded
monstrosity, which is no more like the banqueting-hall of a Pericles than
goddesses of Phidias. I mean not to offend you, Cleopatra, but I must
afterwards treat of justice, truth, virtue; although I know full well
human life, and which in my dealings I wholly set aside; nevertheless
resolving it we may arrive at conditional truth. It is because one man
you will--have received these high-sounding names, have been stamped as
immortals; nay, our anxious care has gone so far that it has been taught
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temple of Serapis! Nothing is beautiful but what is free, and he only is
part in vain--in order to live, as feeble cowards deem virtuously, justly
open fight or by cunning and treachery; the climbing plant strangles the
earthquakes swallow up cities. You believe in the gods--and so do I
in every class of existence that the strong triumph over the weak,
belauded soporifics which our prudent ancestors concocted to cool the hot
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unbridled exercise of power. I would be anything rather than lazy and
Aristippus, I hold pleasure to be the highest good, I would fain earn the
mind, but no less in my body which I admire and cherish."
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spoken, followed the words of the headstrong youth with consternation and
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