procedural

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to procedure

   a procedural violation

2. 2
   adj

   Related to procedure.

   The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.

3. 3
   adj

   Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.

   a procedural texture

4. 4
   noun

   A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.

   It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.

5. 5
   noun

   Ellipsis of police procedural.

   The Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to drink it in like cocoa.

6. 6
   adj

   relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

Etymology

From procedure + -al.