operation meaning
EN[ˌɒpəˈɹeɪʃən] [ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈeɪʃən] [-eɪʃən] [ˌɑːpəˈɹeɪʃən]US
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- 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
- NounPLoperationsSUF-ation
- The method by which a device performs its function.
- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
- The method or practice by which actions are done.
- The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- A planned undertaking.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
- A business or organization.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
- (medicine) A surgical procedure.
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
- The method by which a device performs its function.
- More Examples
- 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.
- 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.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of operation in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en operations
- en operational
- en operationism
- en operationist
- en operationally
Source: Wiktionary