procedural

See also: procédural

English

Etymology

procedure + -al

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)rəl/
  • (file)

Adjective

procedural (comparative more procedural, superlative most procedural)

  1. Related to procedure.
    The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
  2. (computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
    a procedural texture; procedural terrain

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

procedural (plural procedurals)

  1. (literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
    • 2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:
      It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French procédural.

Adjective

procedural m or n (feminine singular procedurală, masculine plural procedurali, feminine and neuter plural procedurale)

  1. procedural

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

procedural (plural procedurales)

  1. procedural
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