procedurally

Adverb

procedurally (not comparable)

1. According to a procedure; following a procedure.
   • The Supreme Court of Georgia held petitioner's equal protection claim procedurally barred as untimely under Georgia law, and we are now called upon to review the adequacy of the State's procedural rule to bar consideration of the constitutional issue raised. We reverse.1991, David Hackett Souter, Ford v. Georgia: Opinion of the Court
2. In a manner that is concerned with procedure.
   • Near-synonyms: methodically, systematically, technically, techniquewise; see also Thesaurus:methodically
   • What actually happens is that the CNP programmer uses the tools for dynamic control to achieve, without procedurally specifying any algorithm, a behavior of the standard interpreter that corresponds to the desired heuristic or other more advanced search strategy.2010, Kostadin Kratchanov, et al., Non-procedural Implementation of Local Heuristic Search in Control Network Programming, conference paper in Rossitza Setchi et al. (editors) Knowledge-Based and...

   Synonyms:

   methodically, systematically, technically, techniquewise, orderly, systemwise

3. (usually) Following a computer algorithm, often in a randomized way.