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Proces (genitive plural procesów; non-diacritic form sometimes written as procesow) is a Polish noun with several related senses. Primarily, it denotes a sequence of events leading to a result, such as a natural, technological, or social process. It also refers to a procedure or method used to achieve an outcome, and in everyday language it can mean a course of events or development over time. In law, proces means a legal proceeding or court case, for example a civil or criminal process. In computing, a process is a running instance of a program, including its state and resources managed by the operating system. In industry and manufacturing, a process is a set of steps that transform inputs into outputs, such as a production process or a quality-control process.

The word ע proces is masculine and its forms follow standard Polish noun declension. The most common related form is the genitive plural procesów, used to express possession or quantity, for example “liczba procesów” (the number of processes) or “procesów sądowych” (court proceedings). The canonical Polish spelling of the genitive plural is with the character ó.

Etymology traces the term to Latin processus, through Old and Middle European languages, acquiring broader usage in Polish to cover natural, social, procedural, legal, and computational meanings. The related nouns procedura (procedure) and przebieg (course, course of events) are often used alongside proces to describe methods, steps, or sequences of actions.

See also: procedura, przebieg, procesor, procesy (plural of process in other senses).