Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- packet
- packet switching
- parity bit
- perfect
- perfect record
- permanent preservation
- permanent preservation system
- persistent archive
- persistent format
- persistent object
- persistent object preservation
- persistent storage
- person
- pertinent
- physical form
- physical person
- physical structure
- plaintext
- planned disposition
- platform
- platform-independent
- platform-neutral
- policy
- potential record
- preamble
- precise
- presented digital record
- preservation
- preservation emulation
- preservation strategy
- preservation system
- preserved record
- preserver
- presumption of authenticity
- primary storage
- primitiveness
- priority of transmission
- private key
- probative
- probative record
- procedural context
- procedure
- process
- program record
- property sheets
- proprietary
- prospective record
- protocol
- protocol register
- provenance
- provenancial context
- pseudo-original
- public accountability
- public key
- public key cryptosystem
- public key encryption
- public key infrastructure
- publication
Term | process
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. A summons in writing to compel the appearance or response of a person before a court; the proceedings in a civil or a criminal case; the procedure by which a disobedient or recalcitrant defendant is made to plead. 2. Patent law, the method used to produce a thing or result. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
- n., 1. Includes, with respect to goods, the adjustment, alteration, assembly, manufacture, modification, production or repair of the goods. 2. Includes a writ, petition, warrant or order issued under the seal of the court, a judge’s summons or order, a notice, subpoena and other proceeding at law or otherwise. 3. A mode or method of operation, by which chemical action, the application or operation of some power or element of nature, or some substance produces a result or effect on another thing or the performance or an operation or use of a method to produce a certain result. 4… 5… 6… [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., The series of motions, or activities in general, carried out to set oneself to work and go on towards each formal step of a procedure.
