profess

v 1: claim to be proficient

2: confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists

professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes

to be a Communist"

3: make a clean breast of; "She confessed that she had taken

the money" [syn: {concede}, {confess}]

4: as in religious orders; take a vow

process

An executing {program}. A

process consists of the program {code} (which may be shared

with other processes which are executing the same program),

and some private data. It may have other associated resources

such as a {process identifier}, open files, {CPU time} limits,

{shared memory}, {child processes}, and {signal handlers}.

A {multitasking} {operating system} can run multiple processes

{concurrently} or in {parallel}.

(1996-12-09)