ure. [Archives] 
n., Used for actions or procedures followed to produce some end, and for the actions or changes that take place in materials or objects. When emphasis is on the manner or method by which actions or procedures are performed, use "techniques." [Arts] 
n., The sequence of states of an executing program. A process consists of the program code (which may be shared with other
processes which are executing the same program), private data, and the state of the processor, particularly the values in 