Procedure may refer to: Medical procedure Instructions or recipes, a set of commands that show how to achieve some result, such as to prepare or make something Procedure (business), specifying parts of a business process Standard operating procedure, a step-by-step instruction to achieve some result, used in industry and military Legal procedure, the body of law and rules used in the administration of justice in the court system, including: Civil procedure Criminal procedure Administrative procedure Parliamentary procedure, a set of rules governing meetings Procedure (computer science), also termed a subroutine, function, or subprogram Stored procedure, a subroutine in the data dictionary of a relational database The Procedure, an American hardcore band See also Procedural (disambiguation)