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 proceduralAny 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)