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Meaning of 'operation' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Operation [ n.]
- The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- The method of working; mode of action.
- That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
- Effect produced; influence.
- Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
- Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.

Meaning of 'operation' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . operation [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a business especially one run on a large scale
Example in sentence:
  • a large-scale farming operation;
  • a multinational operation;
  • they had to consolidate their operations;
  • they paid taxes on every stage of the operation
Meaning (2):
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
Example in sentence:
  • certain machine tool operations;
  • the operations in building a house
Meaning (3):
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
Example in sentence:
  • consolidate the companies various operations;
  • running a restaurant is quite an operation;
  • the biggest police operation in French history;
  • they organized a rescue operation
Meaning (4):
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Example in sentence:
  • he died while undergoing surgery;
  • they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available
Meaning (5):
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
Example in sentence:
  • her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride
Meaning (6):
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
Example in sentence:
  • it can perform millions of operations per second
Meaning (7):
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
Example in sentence:
  • it was a joint operation of the navy and air force
Meaning (8):
- the state of being in effect or being operative
Example in sentence:
  • that rule is no longer in operation
Meaning (9):
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
Example in sentence:
  • the cognitive operation of remembering;
  • the process of thinking
Meaning (10):
- process or manner of functioning or operating
Example in sentence:
  • the jet's performance conformed to high standards;
  • the plane's operation in high winds;
  • the power of its engine determines its operation;
  • they compared the cooking performance of each oven
Meaning (11):
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
Example in sentence:
  • the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation;
  • they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic

Nearby Words:

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