metabolic process
— Noun
– English
～ the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life
mental process
— Noun
– English
～ (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
Markov process
— Noun
– English
～ a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state