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By surface analysis, process +‎ -ing.

processing (countable and uncountable, plural processings)

  1. The action of the verb to process.

    • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

      Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

    • 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:

      For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.

  2. The act of taking something through a set of prescribed procedures.
  3. The act of retrieving, storing, classifying, manipulating, transmitting etc. data, especially via computer techniques.

action of the verb to process

processing

  1. present participle and gerund of process