A procedure is a series of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and other processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome.

Procedure may also refer to:

• Instructions or recipes, a set of commands that show how to prepare or make something
• Subroutine or method (computer science), a portion of code within a larger program
• Algorithm, in mathematics, a sequence of tasks or calculations that accomplish some goal
• Surgical procedure, in medicine, treating diseases through an operation; see also List of surgical procedures
• Legal procedure, in law, the body of law and rules used in the administration of justice in the court system
  • Civil procedure, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, labour procedure
• Parliamentary procedure, in government, the process used for decision making by a legislative assembly

See also

• HowTo
• Standard Operating Procedures

Technical communication

Procedure | Prozedur | روال | Procédure | שגרה | Procedure | プロシージャ | Процедура | BPM | Процедура