prosedural

Prosedural is an adjective used in several non-English languages to convey concepts related to procedure or process, and it often functions as a cognate of the English term procedural. In technical and academic writing that translates or adapts English terminology, prosedural may be the standard form for describing ideas such as procedural programming or procedural generation.

In computing, prosedural programming refers to organizing software logic as a sequence of procedures or functions. Procedural generation describes the automatic creation of content according to predefined rules or algorithms, a technique widely employed in game development, simulations, and digital media. These usages mirror their English counterparts, even when written in a translated or localized form.

Beyond computing, prosedural can appear in discussions of workflows, data processing, and other process-oriented topics where a step-by-step or rule-based approach is described. Its exact meaning and preferred spelling can vary by language and regional style guides, and some languages use alternatives closer to the English form or to related terms (such as procedural or procedimental) depending on orthographic conventions.

In legal or administrative contexts, the term may show up in translated texts to denote process-related concepts, though the most common terms often differ by jurisdiction. Overall, prosedural literature tends to be a localized or translated variant of the broader, language-specific term for process-oriented methods.

See also: procedural programming, procedural generation, procedural law, process orientation.