world process

American  

noun

Philosophy.

1. change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.

2. Hegelianism. change, regarded as the temporal expression and fulfillment of the absolute idea.

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Example Sentences

It's not the first time a papal conclave has been depicted on screen, and though the real world process is shrouded in mystery, there has been a number of notable attempts to dramatise what goes on.

From BBC

Each day, refineries around the world process around 90 million barrels of crude oil — roughly 2 litres for every person on the planet.

From Nature

Big Blue also asserts that mainframes around the world process as many as 30 billion business-level discharges every day, with insurance monies, stock trades, ERP flows and credit card transactions making up a sizeable chunk of this job weight.

From Forbes

Both these truth-claiming hypotheses are non-dualistic in the old mind-and-matter sense; but the one is monistic and the other pluralistic as to the world process itself.

From Project Gutenberg

In part under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, and in part because of the prevalent evolutionary scientific world-view, God is represented under the form of pure thought, and the world process as the unfolding of himself.

From Project Gutenberg