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Operation   /ˌɑpərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Operation

noun
1.
The state of being in effect or being operative.
2.
A business especially one run on a large scale.  "A multinational operation" , "They paid taxes on every stage of the operation" , "They had to consolidate their operations"
3.
A planned activity involving many people performing various actions.  "The biggest police operation in French history" , "Running a restaurant is quite an operation" , "Consolidate the companies various operations"
4.
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).
5.
Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign).  Synonym: military operation.
6.
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.  Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process.  "He died while undergoing surgery"
7.
A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work.  Synonym: procedure.  "Certain machine tool operations"
8.
Process or manner of functioning or operating.  Synonyms: functioning, performance.  "The plane's operation in high winds" , "They compared the cooking performance of each oven" , "The jet's performance conformed to high standards"
9.
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.  Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process.  "The cognitive operation of remembering"
10.
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods.  Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process.  "They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
11.
The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.).



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"Operation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Therefore, whenever mental operations are concerned, a relatively much greater time is required for a nerve-centre to perform its adjustments than when a merely mechanical or non-mental response is needed; and the more complex the mental operation the more time is necessary. Such may be termed the ...
— Mind and Motion and Monism • George John Romanes
... By a curious operation of the human mind, this speech cost Cosmo nearly all the advantage that he had previously gained. His ominous suggestion of a great nebula rushing out of the heavens to overwhelm the earth had immensely impressed the imagination of ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... was a series of articles that should show the world what a huge mistake the social democrats had made in not giving Yourii a leading role in their party. Or else it was an article in favour of adherence to the people and of strenuous co-operation with it—a very broad, imposing treatment of the subject. Each day, however, as it passed, brought nothing but boredom. Once or twice Novikoff and Schafroff came to see him. Yourii also attended lectures and paid visits, yet all this seemed to him empty and aimless. ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... bourgeoisie brought to the fore in July 1830. She received him sometimes in the evenings, and, occupied his attention while the marshal and a few legitimists were talking, in a low voice, in her bedroom, about the recovery of power, which could be attained only by a general co-operation of ideas,—the one element of success which all conspirators overlook. It was the clever vengeance of the pretty woman, who thus inveigled the prime minister, and made him act as screen for a ...
— The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan • Honore de Balzac
... kingdom. The monarch, however, generally found no difficulty in surrounding himself with such strong supporters as to secure the election of his son or heir, and frequently he had his successor chosen before his death. Thus the monarchy, though nominally elective, was in its practical operation ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott


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