procedural

procedure +‎ -al

• IPA^(key): /prəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)rəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

procedural (comparative more procedural, superlative most procedural)

1. Related to procedure.

   The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.

2. (computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.

   a procedural texture; procedural terrain

• procedural law
• procedural memory
• procedurally

procedural (plural procedurals)

1. (literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
   • 2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies, page 35:

     It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

• police procedural

• Procedural (genre) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French procédural.

procedural m or n (feminine singular procedurală, masculine plural procedurali, feminine and neuter plural procedurale)

1. procedural

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾoθeduˈɾal/ [pɾo.θe.ð̞uˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pɾoseduˈɾal/ [pɾo.se.ð̞uˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pro‧ce‧du‧ral

procedural m or f (masculine and feminine plural procedurales)

1. procedural