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EN[ˌɒpəˈɹeɪʃən] [ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈeɪʃən] [-eɪʃən] [ˌɑːpəˈɹeɪʃən]
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WOperation
  • Operation or Operations may refer to:
  • Scientific operation
  • Surgery, or operation
  • An operation in mathematics:
  • Graph operations
  • Unary operation
  • Binary operation
  • Arity
  • Operations research
  • In language, an operation is a word which represents a function (or instruction), rather than a term or name
  • In computer science:
  • an operation is performed on the basis of an instruction
  • Modulo operation
  • In military and intelligence:
  • Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
  • Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
FR opération

    Definition of operation in English Dictionary

  • NounPLoperationsSUF-ation
    1. The method by which a device performs its function.
      1. It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
    2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
      1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
        1. A planned undertaking.
          1. The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
          2. The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
        2. A business or organization.
          1. We run our operation from a storefront.
          2. They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
        3. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
          1. She had an operation to remove her appendix.
        4. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
          1. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
            1. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
            2. More Examples
              1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                • Heliportable operations use smaller drilling equipment specifically designed for easy separation into component parts and reassembly on-site.
                • The operation of the leg is through the activation of two 100  μ m diameter SMA wires connected to a brass micropulley.
                • A bimaxillary operation with maxillary advancement and mandibular setback was carried out in the majority of the patients.
              2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                • Make sure none of your men go off half-cocked and ruin this operation.
                • Subirrigation is used in growing field crops such as tomatoes, peppers, and sugar cane in areas with high water tables, such as Florida, and in commercial greenhouse operations.
                • Chelsea had set out like a team that was reluctant to blur the lines between adventure and leaving themselves open to the counterattack and, by the end, it was a full-on backs-to-the-walls operation.
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Nouns
                • Countable nouns
              Related Links:
              1. en operations
              2. en operational
              3. en operationism
              4. en operationist
              5. en operationally
              Source: Wiktionary

              Meaning of operation for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "operation" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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