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1870 J. H. McIlvaine Elocution i. vii. 124 This forecasting of the structure of the sentence is properly a sub-process.

1917 Philos. Rev. 26 204 A consciousness then is a set of qualities..which have become organically bound together in a peculiar way so as to form a highly complex process. Each sub-process in it may be called ‘mental’.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1495/2 Many processes are known today that compute answers at first sight far beyond even the biggest machine's capacity: they all work by breaking the whole process down into sub-processes.

1990 Minerals Engin. 3 75 The application of that energy in more than a single step along with a loosening/mixing subprocess between successive steps provides more efficient breakage of the particles.

2010 D. Blockley Bridges vii. 258 The subprocesses are understanding the need, identifying the problem, creating solutions, making the solution, and acting on the solution.

1973 Computer 6 44/1 The next layer outside the kernel is called the nucleus and consists of about twenty subprocesses.

1987 Austral. Unix Syst. User Group Newslet. 8 50 When sendmail spawns a subprocess to deliver mail, it resets the user and group identification numbers to 1.

1996 WEBTechniques Aug. 47/2 Many programming languages..provide the means to spawn subprocesses.

2009 D. N. Blank-Edelman Automating Syst. Admin. with Perl (ed. 2) iv. 103 This allows you to display the subprocess for each process (i.e., the list of processes that process spawned).