Bertillon system - a system or procedure for identifying persons

fingerprinting - the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification

genetic fingerprinting, genetic profiling - the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification

diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis

emergency procedure - (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)

experimental procedure - the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment

activity - any specific activity; "they avoided all recreational activity"

calculation, computation, computing - the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods

medical procedure - a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners

chromosome mapping, mapping - (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome

operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation

stiffening - the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance"

indirection - indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"

rigamarole, rigmarole - a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"

modus operandi, routine - an unvarying or habitual method of procedure

experimental condition, condition - the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition

formula, rule - (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"

work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"

software, software package, software system, package - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand"

computer program, computer programme, program, programme - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code"

cataloged procedure - a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name

contingency procedure - an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises

library routine - a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library

random number generator - a routine designed to yield a random number

recursive routine - a routine that can call itself

reusable routine - a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly

executive routine, supervisory routine - a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines

tracing routine - a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program

service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed

bureaucratic procedure, red tape - needlessly time-consuming procedure

objection - (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality

legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked