From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
procedural
adj 1: of or relating to procedure; "a procedural violation"
2: relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the
principles of law; "adjective law" [syn: adjective,
procedural] [ant: essential, substantive]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
procedural language
procedural
Any programming language in which the programmer
specifies an explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce
a result (an algorithm).
The term should not be confused with "{imperative language" -
a language that specifies explicit manipulation of state. An
example (non-imperative) procedural language is LOGO, which
specifies sequences of steps to perform but does not have an
internal state.
Other procedural languages include Basic, Pascal, C, and
Modula-2.
Both procedural and imperative languages are in contrast to
declarative languages, in which the programmer specifies
neither explicit steps nor explicit state manipulation.
(2004-05-17)