world process

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.

Example Sentences

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

He first saw and enabled the world to see capitalistic production as a world process, passing by necessity through certain stages of social development, and unless some change of law and spirit came to modify it, moving towards an inevitable destiny.

From Project Gutenberg