(law enforcement) A deliverer of processes or summonses, the formal announcements of the beginning of a legal action; a huissier de justice or other equivalent position in other legal systems.

(law) The delivery of information to a person or entity providing notice that they are being sued with sufficient detail for them to respond to the suit.

(physics, astronomy) The relatively rapid nucleosynthesis process, in supernovae, in which a large neutron flux allows rapid neutron capture and synthesis of elements up to the transuranic elements.

(physics, astronomy) the relatively slow nucleosynthesis process, in giant stars, in which neutron capture synthesises elements up to atomic mass number 210 (at which point alpha decay becomes a deterrent to further building).

(physics, astronomy) any nucleosynthesis process, details of which are unclear, that accounts for the light elements lithium, berylium and boron which cannot survive in stellar interiors because they are destroyed by proton capture

(mathematics, probability theory) A function that maps elements of an index set to elements of a collection of random variables; historically, a collection of random variables indexed by a set of numbers usually regarded as points in time.

(computing, Unix) A process that is not currently able to receive input from its controlling terminal.

plural of background process

the process of making carbon prints

(chemistry) any of several industrial processes that either use or manufacture sodium hydroxide, but especially a method of making paper from wood pulp