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Operation   /ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Operation

noun
1.
The state of being in effect or being operative.
2.
A business especially one run on a large scale.  "A multinational operation" , "They paid taxes on every stage of the operation" , "They had to consolidate their operations"
3.
A planned activity involving many people performing various actions.  "The biggest police operation in French history" , "Running a restaurant is quite an operation" , "Consolidate the companies various operations"
4.
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).
5.
Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign).  Synonym: military operation.
6.
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.  Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process.  "He died while undergoing surgery"
7.
A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work.  Synonym: procedure.  "Certain machine tool operations"
8.
Process or manner of functioning or operating.  Synonyms: functioning, performance.  "The plane's operation in high winds" , "They compared the cooking performance of each oven" , "The jet's performance conformed to high standards"
9.
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.  Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process.  "The cognitive operation of remembering"
10.
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods.  Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process.  "They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
11.
The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.).



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... assume the offensive, and to break up the hostile army at Hangchow, of which the body that attacked Ningpo was the advanced guard. Sir Hugh Gough commanded the operations in person, and he had the co-operation of a naval force under Sir William Parker. The first action took place outside Tszeki, a small place ten miles from Ningpo, where the Chinese fancied they occupied an exceedingly strong position. But careful inspection showed it ...
— China • Demetrius Charles Boulger
... in her arms a quantity of roots and strips of long bark, and placing them on the ground at my feet commenced applying them, first the leaves, then the bark, to my limbs. Soon I was swathed and bandaged like a mummy; which operation being performed, I was taken in their arms and ...
— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman
... It is safe to say that few judges or lawyers have ever been students of insanity, of the relation of "will" to "conduct," or of other questions of science or philosophy. Each man confines himself to his field of operation, and the love of living does not induce him to go far from the matter in hand, which to him means the base ...
— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow
... Gondebaud, who had promised his assistance, and in conjunction with them to attack the Visigoths on the banks of the Rhone and in Narbonensis. The young Frank boldly executed his father's orders, but the intervention of Theodoric the Great, king of Italy, prevented the success of the operation. He sent an army into Gaul to the aid of his son-in-law Alaric; and the united Franks and Burgundians failed in their attacks upon the Visigoths of the eastern provinces. Clovis had no idea of compromising by his obstinacy the conquests already accomplished; he therefore ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various
... the uniformity of the temperature in all parts of the mass is desirable, as showing that all parts are fermenting evenly. The cacao is usually shovelled from one box to another every one or two days. The chief object of this operation is to mix the cacao and prevent merely local fermentation. To make mixing easy one ingenious planter uses a cylindrical vessel which can be ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp


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