procedural

4 definitions • 9 examples

relating to a set of actions that is the official, legal, or accepted way of doing something:

The procedural changes were meant to simplify the system, which had become too bureaucratic.

procedural errors/matters

(of a television programme, film, or story) including a lot of detail about official legal or police methods and processes:

Jurors often have false expectations about crime scenes and DNA evidence due to the popularity of TV procedural shows.

There are four procedural dramas in the top 10 this year.

a television programme, film, or story that includes a lot of detail about official legal or police methods and processes:

The TV schedules are crowded with procedurals such as CSI (Crime Scene Investigation).

The novel is a gripping police procedural that explores a homicide taking place in Chicago in 1969.

relating to the usual or official way in which something is done:

The crew of the flight committed numerous procedural violations before taking off from the wrong runway and crashing.

So the first solution I would describe is procedural, applying a formula and doing a calculation.

procedural issues/problems/questions