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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



... guess how thoroughly Popinot had picketed the house, in co-operation with Roddy's murderer, by way of provision against mischance; but the adventurer was satisfied that, in his proper guise as himself, he needed only to open that postern door at the street end of the passage, to feel a knife slip in between his ribs—most ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... Either by agreement of the heads of the parish the Church is declared to be in the popular sense of the term "free and open," which is perhaps on the whole the best of all or else by mutual forbearance and general co-operation an arrangement is arrived at by which the worshippers in Church have from time to time seats allotted ...
— Churchwardens' Manual - their duties, powers, rights, and privilages • George Henry

... One operation—now some years ago—had succeeded for the time; but not being followed by the treatment at home and residence abroad prescribed, the improvement had not been lasting. Then it was that Mrs Lyle had written to ...
— Robin Redbreast - A Story for Girls • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... they do that at all times which they can do at some times? Can they pray, believe, love, fear, repent, and bow before God always alike? No. Why so? they are the same men, the same human nature, the same saints. Aye, but the same grace, in the same degree, operation, and life of grace, doth not so now work on that man, that nature, that saint; therefore, notwithstanding he is what he is, he cannot do at all times alike. Thus therefore it is manifest, that nature, simply as such, is a great way off of doing that which is acceptable with God. Refined, purified, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... and listened. He could hear nothing. Yet he was positive that he could feel some approaching presence. It may have been a minute vibration of flooring; it may have been through the operation of some occult sixth sense. But he was sure of that mysterious Other, coming closer and closer ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer


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