Related to procedure.The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds; it wasn't the facts or the law, it was just they hadn't filed the correct forms.
(computing) Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.a procedural texture; procedural terrain
(literature) A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
2000, Gary Hausladen, Places for Dead Bodies (page 35)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.
