- the treatment of raw material, food, etc. in order to change it, preserve it, etc.
- the food processing industry
- a sewage processing plant
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- the process of dealing officially with a document, request, etc.
- errors in the processing of financial transactions
see also batch processing, central processing unit, data processing, natural language processing, parallel processing, word processing
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