Meaning & Definition of Operation in English
Operation
noun
1. The state of being in effect or being operative
- "That rule is no longer in operation"
- operation
2. 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"
- operation
3. 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"
- operation
4. (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"
- operation
5. Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- "It was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
- operation,
- military operation
6. 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"
- operation,
- surgery,
- surgical operation,
- surgical procedure,
- surgical process
7. 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"
- operation,
- procedure
8. Process or manner of functioning or operating
- "The power of its engine determines 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"
- operation,
- functioning,
- performance
9. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity
- An operation that affects mental contents
- "The process of thinking"
- "The cognitive operation of remembering"
- process,
- cognitive process,
- mental process,
- operation,
- cognitive operation
10. (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"
- mathematical process,
- mathematical operation,
- operation
11. The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- "Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
- operation