OPERATION
Scrabble letter values: O1P3E1R1A1T1I1O1N1 = 11
Definition
- 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). — synonyms: military_operation
- noun a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments. — synonyms: surgery, surgical_operation, surgical_procedure, surgical_process
- noun a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work. — synonyms: procedure
- noun process or manner of functioning or operating. — synonyms: functioning, performance
- noun (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity. — synonyms: process, cognitive_process, mental_process, cognitive_operation
- noun (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods. — synonyms: mathematical_process, mathematical_operation
- noun the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.).
Examples
- “that rule is no longer in operation”
- “a large-scale farming operation”
- “a multinational operation”