OPERATION
Definition of OPERATION
- (noun)the state of being in effect or being operative
- (noun)a business especially one run on a large scale
- (noun)a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- (noun)(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- (noun)activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- (noun)a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- (noun)a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (noun)process or manner of functioning or operating
- (noun)(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- (noun)(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- (noun)the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)