That part of the arc located behind such intersections lack recent volcanic. activity and the active volcanoes are generally located along the ocean side of the arc. Inner arcs consists of a double line of islands up to 1500â2000 km in length and the. volcanoes occur on the inner side of the arc.
Part of the Operating systems glossary: A process is an instance of a program running in a computer. It is close in meaning to task, a term used in some operating systems.
Also found in: Financial, Acronyms, Wikipedia. An action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling, a process can be a single task or a complicated procedure such as building a product. A business information system process typically means updating a database from a transaction such as an order or application form (transaction vs. master). See transaction, business process modeling, business processing and information system.