processing
    n 1: preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure; "the
         processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of
         ore to obtain minerals"

	

	88 Moby Thesaurus words for "processing":
   accounting, analysis, architecture, arrangement, assembly,
   automatic electronic navigation, basic training, braking, briefing,
   building, casting, clearing the decks, composition, computation,
   construction, conversion, coordination, crafting, craftsmanship,
   creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, equipment, erection,
   extraction, fabrication, fact distribution, familiarization,
   fashioning, fixing, forecasts, formation, forming, formulation,
   foundation, framing, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork,
   harvesting, inspection, machining, makeready, making, making ready,
   manipulation, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining,
   mobilization, molding, nonlinear calibrations, output measurement,
   planning, prearrangement, prefabrication, preliminaries,
   preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation,
   preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment,
   producing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying,
   record keeping, refining, shaping, smelting, spadework, steering,
   supersonic flow detection, training, treatment, trial, tryout,
   warm-up, workmanship

	

	processing

    Performing some
   predefined sequence of operations on an input to produce an
   output or change of internal state; activity specifically
   involving the computer's CPU.

   The term is often qualified: "data processing" treats
   digital data, "signal processing" treats analog data
   (possibly in digital form), "word processing" takes in typed
   human language input and produces digital documents, image
   processing transforms digital images.

   (2003-10-23)