PHYSICAL PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physical process mean? 

• PHYSICAL PROCESS (noun)
  The noun PHYSICAL PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

  Familiarity information: PHYSICAL PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICAL PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

physical process; process

Context example:

the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls

Hypernyms ("physical process" is a kind of...):

physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physical process"):

irreversible process (any process that is not reversible)

variation (the process of varying or being varied)

defining; shaping (any process serving to define the shape of something)

sensitisation; sensitization ((psychology) the process of becoming highly sensitive to specific events or situations (especially emotional events or situations))

reversible process (any process in which a system can be made to pass through the same states in the reverse order when the process is reversed)

processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure)

photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

functioning; operation; performance (process or manner of functioning or operating)

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

iteration; loop ((computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated)

iteration; looping ((computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained)

phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)

industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)

growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)

human process (a process in which human beings are involved)

execution; instruction execution ((computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer)

encapsulation (the process of enclosing (as in a capsule))

economic process (any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth, or, according to Carmine Gorga, Ph.D., author of the book 'The Economic Process', the process of production of real wealth, distribution of ownership rights over real and monetary wealth, and consumption or expenditure of monetary wealth to purchase real wealth)

development; evolution (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage))

degeneration; devolution (the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality)

decrease; decrement (a process of becoming smaller or shorter)

dealignment (a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties)

chelation ((medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning)

 Context examples 

In one of the experiments with the chips, described as a breakthrough, the researchers were able to demonstrate the quantum teleportation of information between two programmable devices for the very first time using a physical process known as quantum entanglement.

(Scientists ‘Teleport’ Data between Chips for First Time, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)