Procedure may refer to: *

Medical procedure A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the delivery of healthcare. A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. ...

* Instructions or

recipe A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. His ...

s, a set of commands that show how to achieve some result, such as to prepare or make something * Procedure (business), specifying parts of a business process *

Standard operating procedure A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out routine operations. SOPs aim to achieve efficiency, quality output, and uniformity of performance, while reducing misc ...

, a step-by-step instruction to achieve some result, used in industry and military * Legal procedure, the body of law and rules used in the administration of justice in the court system, including: ** Civil procedure **

Criminal procedure Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or ...

** Administrative procedure *

Parliamentary procedure Parliamentary procedure is the accepted rules, ethics, and customs governing meetings of an assembly or organization. Its object is to allow orderly deliberation upon questions of interest to the organization and thus to arrive at the sense or t ...

, a set of rules governing meetings * Procedure (computer science), also termed a subroutine, function, or subprogram **

Stored procedure A stored procedure (also termed proc, storp, sproc, StoPro, StoredProc, StoreProc, sp, or SP) is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database management system (RDBMS). Such procedures are stored in the database data dic ...

, a subroutine in the data dictionary of a relational database *

The Procedure The Procedure is a New Jersey band that formed in 2001. The band features former Thursday and Purpose guitarist Bill Henderson. History The Procedure formed in 2001 at The College of New Jersey in Trenton, NJ. The band self-released a 4-song de ...

, an American hardcore band

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