procedural

Procedural is a management term which refers to an approach to programming in which the developer specifies exactly what has to be done, and in what order.

Last updated: June 21, 2004.

Dictionary: pro·ce·dur·al  (prə-sē'jər-əl)

Of or concerning procedure, especially of a court of law or parliamentary body.

A police procedural.

The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: of or relating to procedure
  Pertains to noun: procedure (meaning #4)

Meaning #2: (law) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure
  Synonym: adjective

Procedural, as an adjective, refers to the concept of procedure. It may also refer to:

• Procedural programming, a computer programming concept
• Procedural generation, a term often used in connection with computer graphics applications to indicate that data is created algorithmically rather than directly specified by an artist
• Procedural law, a legal concept
• Procedural memory, a cognitive science concept
• Police procedural, a type of mystery fiction in written or dramatized form
  • More generally, Procedural (genre)

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