More definitions of "operation":
- (noun): The state of being in effect or being operative.
Example: "That rule is no longer in operation"
- (noun): (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods.
Synonyms: mathematical process, mathematical operation
- (noun): (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents.
Example: "The cognitive operation of remembering"
Synonyms: process, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation
- (noun): A planned activity involving many people performing various actions.
Example: "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): The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.).
Example: "Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
- (noun): A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work.
Synonyms: procedure
- (noun): A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.
Example: "They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"
Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
- (noun): (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).
Example: "It can perform millions of operations per second"
- (noun): A business especially one run on a large scale.
Example: "A large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
- (noun): Process or manner of functioning or operating.
Example: "The power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"
Synonyms: functioning, performance
Famous quotes containing the word operation:
“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.”
—Francis Bacon (1560–1626)
“It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a single piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)