The preparation of a mortgage loan application and documentation for consideration by a lending institution. This includes verifying employment and assets, obtaining payoffs on current mortgage liens and performing a preliminary review on the title search and appraisal report before providing the entire loan application to the underwriter for final review.

A procedure where a processor takes a file from a loan officer and completes all the necessary steps to get the loan into underwriting.

The second step in the home equity application process which involves the verification of information stated on the application. Credit reports and the appraisal are also ordered at this time.

The administration and paperwork related to a loan from the time a completed application form is received through to completion of the loan process.

Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created

Producing an image (either negative or positive) from exposed film or photographic paper by developing, fixing and washing it.

The sequence of steps in which the latent photographic image is converted into a visible, permanent image. (see Dev.& Latent image)

Procedure during which exposed film is developed, fixed, and washed to produce either a negative or a positive image.

Library materials that are in the process of being catalogued and labeled to be placed on library open stacks. Patrons may request to be notified when the item Is ready to be checked out.

Catch-all term for preparing books and other materials to be made available to the library's users. Some materials are ordered pre-processed or ready for the shelf. Processing may include cataloging, preparation of cards, putting in book pockets and attaching protective covers.

(spent fuel...): selectively partitioning of materials contained in spent fuel to extract those that can be recycled (uranium and plutonium) or possibly transmuted, and conditioning the different types of final waste for storage or disposal

Strictly, the carrying out of the various routines such as stamping, labeling, numbering, etc., before a book is ready for the shelves, but it may include all the processes involved in so preparing a book.

The manipulation of data by a computer in accordance with its instructions, or programming. (Terms, Gr. 3)

the way information is manipulated, including information retrieval, examination, organization, analysis.

The ability to accurately perceive and manipulate information. In the context of reading, processing refers to the ability to distinguish speech sounds and identify letter and word forms.

An action that manipulates data and executes instructions by a computer.

conversion of data into a meaningful form (information).

Computer instructions executed to transform inputted data (word processing, sorting, calculating) into useable information. WWWebfx Home Page

Operations performed on data to transform it in some way.

taken from EU Directive - definition in context "processing of personal data" -- any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction

A general term for all of the processes applied to tobacco after it has been cured and before it is used in the manufacture of tobacco products. Processing involves various stages, including blending, threshing, re-drying, and packaging.

The process of taking a live animal, slaughtering it and then breaking down into saleable beef/sheepmeat.

Cooking, baking, curing, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, slaughtering, cutting, fermenting, distilling, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, chilling, or otherwise manufacturing and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing food in a container.

Slaughter or butchering of market animals to be used for food.

Operation consisting of extracting the economically valuable mineral or minerals from ore or tailings.

A general term that refers to the overall process of manufacturing heroin. Includes the acetylation process, a number of intermediate purification and precipitation processes, and the process of chemically converting heroin base to a soluble salt form of heroin, generally heroin hydrochloride. Heroin processing can also include the extraction of morphine from opium, and may include other operations, such as filtering, drying, pressing, and packaging the finished heroin product.

The daily operation of all systems in the IT environment.

Performing an operation in which a physical or chemical change in tangible personal property is brought about.

The activities of appraising, arranging, describing and preserving archival materials.

The accessioning, arrangement, description and proper storage of archival materials. During processing, preservation concerns are identified.

treating a food in such a way as to change its nature and properties in order to preserve it, to improve its eating quality or to make useful ingredients.

The activities performed by archivists when materials are transferred to the legal custody of the University Archives. Among the individual tasks of processing are: accessioning, arranging, describing, and properly storing archival materials. See also accession, arrangement, description, preservation, and weeding.

With respect to proteins, generally used to refer to proteolytic post-translational modifications of a polypeptide. In the case of RNA, processing may involve the addition of a 5' cap and 3' poly-A tracks as well as splicing reactions in the nucleus.

Modifications made to the protein to make it functional.

biochemical modifications of biomolecules (RNAs, proteins)

It refers to all the steps involved in the preparation of harvested seed for marketing; viz., handling, selling, pre conditioning, drying, cleaning, size grading, upgrading, treating and packaging. In a narrow sense however, it refers only to preconditioning, cleaning, size grading and upgrading of seeds.

an important step in ensuring that your lists are fully updated prior to mailing

Steps that finish a printed stamp sheet. Processing includes perforation, trimming, dividing the sheet into individual panes, and packaging for distribution.

see manufacturing.

When referring to zone activity, means, any activity involving a change in condition of merchandise, other than manufacturing, which results in a change in the customs classification of an article or in its eligibility for entry for consumption.

General term used to denote the various treatments of milk (for example, pasteurization). The term also refers to the various manufacturing processes in milk treatment, cheese making, butter making and most commonly, for the heat treatment of cheese in the presence of an emulsifying agent.

A set of procedures used by a business to renew commercial linens from a soiled state to a properly cleaned state

Procedures performed to meet cleanliness specifications for apparel and accessories. Go to top

The procedure by which the merchant sends the information about each credit card transaction to the issuing Bank so that the Issuing Bank can pay the merchant for the transactions.

The separation of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids and the removal of impurities.

Removing excess moisture and erroneous hydro-carbons from the natural gas to a point where it is deemed suitable for transport on the pipeline.

The separation and refining of oil, natural gas, and gas liquids to remove purities and ready for the market.

That action or actions, governed by the technical disciplines and codes of Scientology, of administering a process to a preclear in order to release or free him.

another word for auditing. See auditing in this glossary.

the action of asking a preclear a question (which he can understand and answer), getting an answer and acknowledging him for that answer. Also called auditing.