• 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"; "the biggest police Operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an Operation"; "consolidate the companies various Operations"
• 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"; "certain machine tool Operations"
• a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the Operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
• (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic Operations of arithmetic"
• 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"; "a multinational Operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the Operation"; "they had to consolidate their Operations"
• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an Operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive Operation of remembering"
• (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 determine its Operation"; "the plane''s Operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet''s performance conformed to high standards"
• the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in Operation"

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