Procedure may refer to: * Medical procedure * 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, 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, an American hardcore band

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