OPERATION
Definition:
- [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] 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"
Synonyms: procedure
- [noun] the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in 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"
Synonyms: surgery, surgical surgical procedure, surgical process
- [noun] activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
Synonyms: military
- [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] process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine 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"
Synonyms: functioning, performance
- [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"
Synonyms: mathematical process, mathematical
- [noun] (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
Synonyms: process, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive
- [noun] the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
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- rescue operation
- undercover operation
- commission
- running
- ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
- amputation
- angioplasty
- arthroplasty
- arthroscopy
- brain surgery
- castration
- cautery, cauterization, cauterisation
- chemosurgery
- craniotomy
- cryosurgery
- curettage, curettement
- debridement
- decortication
- dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C
- electrosurgery
- enterostomy, enterotomy
- enucleation
- wrong-site surgery
- evisceration
- exenteration
- fenestration
- gastrectomy
- gastroenterostomy
- gastrostomy
- heart surgery
- hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy
- hysterotomy
- implantation
- iridectomy
- iridotomy
- intestinal bypass
- jejunostomy
- major surgery
- microsurgery
- minor surgery
- myotomy
- myringectomy
- myringoplasty
- myringotomy
- neurosurgery
- orchiopexy
- osteotomy
- ostomy
- palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP
- phlebectomy
- photocoagulation
- plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty
- polypectomy
- resection
- rhinotomy
- rhizotomy
- sex-change operation, transsexual surgery
- Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation
- sterilization, sterilisation
- strabotomy
- taxis
- tracheostomy, tracheotomy
- transplant, transplantation, organ transplant
- trephination
- tympanoplasty
- uranoplasty
- vasovasostomy
- vivisection
- combined operation
- maneuver, manoeuvre, simulated military operation
- campaign, military campaign
- naval campaign
- mission, military mission
- support, reinforcement, reenforcement
- attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
- offense, offence, offensive
- peacekeeping, peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation
- amphibious operation
- information gathering
- psychological operation, psyop
- covert operation
- Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation
- Operation Desert Storm
- access, memory access
- asynchronous operation
- auxiliary operation, off-line operation
- boolean operation, binary operation, binary arithmetic operation
- computer operation, machine operation
- concurrent operation
- control operation, control function
- dyadic operation
- fixed-cycle operation
- logic operation, logical operation
- monadic operation, unary operation
- multiplex operation
- parallel operation, simultaneous operation
- printing operation
- search, lookup
- serial operation, sequential operation, consecutive operation
- sort, sorting
- synchronous operation
- threshold operation
- permutation
- combination
- differentiation
- maximization
- integration
- exponentiation, involution
- arithmetic operation
- matrix operation
- construction
- relaxation, relaxation method
- basic cognitive process
- higher cognitive process
