industrial process
Noun
Meaning
a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something
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Examples
Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.