| NOMBRE | process | acción natural, acción, proceso natural | a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) |
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| Sentido | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). | |
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| Sinónimos | acción, proceso natural | |
| Específico | ablandamiento, reblandecimiento, suavización | The process of becoming softer |
| absorción | (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium | |
| absorción | The process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) | |
| acidificación | The process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | |
| aeración, aireación, oxigenación, ventilación | The process of exposing to air (so as to purify) | |
| alambicamiento, destilación, distillment | The process of purifying a liquid / liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | |
| cambio de estado | A change from one state (solid or liquid / liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition | |
| cambio de temperatura | A process whereby the degree of hotness of a body / body (or medium) changes | |
| captura | A process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field | |
| centrifugación | The process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge | |
| coagulación | The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid / liquid | |
| condensación | The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | |
| convección | (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat / heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | |
| cromatografía | A process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency | |
| curación, endurecimiento, solidificación | The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | |
| desasorción, desorción | changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state | |
| descarga, liberación | A process that liberates or discharges something | |
| desintegración, disolución | separation into component parts | |
| desmagnetización | The process of removing magnetization | |
| difusión | (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration | |
| dispersión | The physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions | |
| ecesis | (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | |
| efervescencia | The process of bubbling as gas escapes | |
| electroforesis | The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field | |
| extinción | The reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation | |
| extracción | The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means | |
| filtración | The process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium | |
| floculación | The process of flocculating | |
| flujo | Any uninterrupted stream or discharge | |
| fosilización | The process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age | |
| imanación, imantación, magnetización | The process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | |
| intercambio iónico | A process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble (usually resinous) solid | |
| ionización | The process of ionizing / ionizing | |
| lixiviación, lixivización | The process of leaching / leaching / leaching | |
| materialización | The process of coming into being | |
| oscilación | The process of oscillating between states | |
| oxigenación | The process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen | |
| proceso adiabático | (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat | |
| proceso geológico | (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified | |
| proceso químico | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved | |
| reacción nuclear | (physics) a process that alters the energy or structure or composition of atomic nuclei | |
| realimentación, retroacción, retroalimentación | The process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output | |
| remojo, remojón, soakage | The process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed / immersed in water (or other liquid / liquid) | |
| selección natural | A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | |
| sericultura | Raising silkworms / silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | |
| sinergia, sinergía, sinergismo | The working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects | |
| sucesión ecológica, sucesión | (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | |
| transducción | The process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form | |
| transpiración | The passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature | |
| General | proceso físico, proceso | A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states |
| Inglés | natural process, natural action, action, activity | |
| Catalán | procés natural | |
| Adjetivo | activo | (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt |
| activo | (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions | |
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