'operation' definitions:
Definition of 'operation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
noun
A business especially one run on a large scale; "a large- scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
noun
A planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
noun
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
noun
Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" [syn: operation, military operation]
noun
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" [syn: operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process]
noun
A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation, procedure]
noun
Process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards" [syn: operation, functioning, performance]
noun
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering" [syn: process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation]
noun
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" [syn: mathematical process, mathematical operation, operation]
noun
The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
Synonyms of 'operation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- activism,
- activity,
- adventure,
- affair,
- amphibious operations,
- amputation,
- anastomotic operation,
- appliance,
- application,
- attempt,
- behavior,
- bloodless operation,
- blow,
- bringing to fruition,
- business,
- business deal,
- campaign,
- capital operation,
- combined operations,
- commercial transaction,
- commitment,
- compensating operation,
- contract,
- control,
- corneal transplant,
- coup,
- crescent operation,
- deal,
- dealings,
- deed,
- direction,
- doing,
- doings,
- dry run,
- duty,
- effective,
- effectuation,
- efficacious,
- effort,
- elective operation,
- emergency operation,
- employment,
- end use,
- endeavor,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- excision,
- execution,
- exercise,
- exercising,
- exertion,
- exploit,
- exploitation,
- exploratory operation,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- fenestration operation,
- fluid operations,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gest,
- go,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- heart transplant,
- immediate purpose,
- in effect,
- in force,
- interval operation,
- job,
- kidney transplant,
- logistics,
- major operation,
- management,
- managing,
- maneuver,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- measure,
- military operations,
- minor operation,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- motion,
- move,
- movement,
- movements,
- negotiation,
- obligation,
- occupation,
- office,
- operating,
- operational,
- operational purpose,
- operations,
- operative,
- organ transplant,
- organ transplantation,
- overproduction,
- overseas operations,
- overt act,
- package deal,
- palliative operation,
- passage,
- performance,
- plan,
- play,
- practice,
- praxis,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- production,
- productiveness,
- program,
- project,
- proposition,
- purpose,
- radical operation,
- realization,
- removal,
- res gestae,
- resection,
- role,
- running,
- section,
- staff work,
- step,
- stroke,
- stunt,
- surgical intervention,
- surgical operation,
- surgical technique,
- swing,
- task,
- the knife,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- transplant,
- turn,
- ultimate purpose,
- undertaking,
- use,
- using,
- utilization,
- venture,
- war game,
- war plans,
- work,
- working,
- workings,
- works
Words containing 'operation'
- in operation,
- operable,
- operant,
- operate,
- operate on,
- operating,
- operational,
- operationalism,
- operationally,
- operations,
- operative,
- operatively,
- operator,
- Calculus of operations,
- Distributive operation,
- Front of operations,
- Line of operations,
- Plastic operation,
- Reverse operation,
- Subcutaneous operation,
- Subperiosteal operation,
- amphibious operation,
- arithmetic operation,
- asynchronous operation,
- auxiliary operation,
- base of operations,
- binary operation,
- black operation,
- boolean operation,
- camera operator,
- chemical operations,
- clandestine operation,
- cognitive operation,
- combined operation,
- company operator,
- computer operation,
- concurrent operation,
- consecutive operation,
- control operation,
- covert operation,
- dyadic operation,
- elevator operator,
- exfiltration operation,
- existential operator,
- eye operation,
- field of operation,
- field of operations,
- identity operator,
- intelligence operation,
- joint operation,
- linear operator,
- logic operation,
- logical operation,
- machine operation,
- majority operation,
- martyr operation,
- mathematical operation,
- matrix operation,
- military operation,
- military operations,
- monadic operation,
- multiplex operation,
- newsstand operator,
- operant conditioning,
- operating budget,
- operating capability,
- operating capital,
- operating cost,
- operating expense,
- operating instructions,
- operating microscope,
- operating procedure,
- operating room,
- operating statement,
- operating surgeon,
- operating system,
- operating table,
- operating theater,
- operating theatre,
- operation code,
- operational casualty,
- operational cell,
- operational damage,
- operations research,
- operative field,
- operator gene,
- overt operation,
- parallel operation,
- peacekeeping operation,
- printing operation,
- psychological operation,
- pyramid operation,
- radio operator,
- rescue operation,
- sacrifice operation,
- sequential operation,
- serial operation,
- shirodkar's operation,
- simultaneous operation,
- sting operation,
- surgical operation,
- switchboard operator,
- synchronous operation,
- telegraph operator,
- telephone operator,
- theater of operations,
- theatre of operations,
- threshold operation,
- trading operations,
- unary operation,
- undercover operation,
- A deep line of operations,
- big time operator,
- binary arithmetic operation,
- chief operating officer,
- coin-operated,
- disk operating system,
- hand-operated,
- off-line operation,
- operation desert storm,
- riot control operation,
- simulated military operation,
- standard operating procedure,
- standing operating procedure,
- unix operating system,
- buy-and-bust operation,
- fixed-cycle operation,
- floating-point operation,
- meuse-argonne operation,
- microsoft disk operating system,
- purse-string operation,
- real-time operation,
- sewing-machine operator,
- sex-change operation,
- co-operative republic of guyana,
- million floating point operations per second,
- trillion floating point operations per second