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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The flow or progress of work done by a company, industry, department, or person.
  • noun The rate at which such flow or progress takes place.

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  • noun The rate at which a flow of work takes place
  • noun business A process and/or procedure in which tasks are completed. It may be defined with a flowchart to define actors, actions, results, decisions, and action paths.

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  • noun progress (or rate of progress) in work being done

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Examples

  • The workflow is still a work in progress as more people give out their opinion on it

    Planning for 10.10: Improving How We Review Patches | jonobacon@home 2010

  • It has python bindings (though on the beagle board, its probably much better to use the native C.) one way to improve the eissq. com workflow is to mask off the edge of the dials (so the text has been removed), you could then skip straight to the hough transform. as there is only one line (the needle) you should only get one result (!).

    labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » DIY Android Home Energy Monitor 2009

  • One of the barriers to adopting a new tool in your workflow is ease of use.

    Futz Puts Your To-Do List In Your Browser’s Address Bar | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Typical of the books in this series, an assembly-line workflow is assumed, with Williams receiving a script from someone else, passing off his pages to different colorists and letterers, and working under the supervision of an editor, who provides direction, approves work, and makes some artistic decisions, like cover designs.

    The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • My GTD collection, processing, organizing and reviewing workflow is very similar to many if not most of the others out there.

    GTD: My workflow target — Meandering Passage 2006

  • I think I'm so accustomed to a complicated workflow that a simpler workflow is confusing.

    Archive 2005-04-01 2005

  • Apparently digital workflow is a big issue to some folks.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • Annotation Edit is designed to give production houses and eLearning environments a smooth subtitle workflow for Apple DVD Studio Pro/Final Cut Pro, QuickTime WebTV and broadcast.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • Annotation Edit is designed to give production houses and eLearning environments a smooth subtitle workflow for Apple DVD Studio Pro/Final Cut Pro, QuickTime WebTV and broadcast.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • Annotation Edit is designed to give production houses and eLearning environments a smooth subtitle workflow for Apple DVD Studio Pro/Final Cut Pro, QuickTime WebTV and broadcast.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

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  • "Skelta Workflow.NET 2004 was conceptualized to address a glaring lacuna in the development space of the workflow software applications segment. The absence of easy-to-integrate workflow-specific embeddable tools available to a developer in order to workflow-enable applications / products."

    - Skelta website.

    July 6, 2008