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operation

English

🔊 the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
“her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride”
🔊 a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
“they organized a rescue operation”
🔊 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”
🔊 a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments
“they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available”
🔊 activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
“it was a joint operation of the navy and air force”
🔊 a business especially one run on a large scale
“a large-scale farming operation”
🔊 (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”
🔊 process or manner of functioning or operating
“the power of its engine determines its operation”
🔊 the state of being in effect or being operative
“that rule is no longer in operation”
🔊 (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
“the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation”
🔊 (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity
“the process of thinking”