Procedure

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A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances (for example, emergency procedures). Less precisely speaking, this word can indicate a sequence of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome. A procedure usually induces a change. It is in the scientific method.

Procedure may also refer to:

• Algorithm, in mathematics and computing, a set of operations or calculations that accomplish some goal
• Instructions or recipes, a set of commands that show how to prepare or make something
• Legal procedure, in law, the within a larger program
• Surgical procedure, in medicine, treating diseases through an operation; see also List of surgical procedures

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