operation

Meaning

1. The method by which a device performs its function.
2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4. A planned undertaking.
5. A business or organization.
6. A surgical procedure.
7. A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)
8. A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)
9. A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
10. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

Concepts

operation

action

work

performance

activity

business

surgery

function

working

procedure

process

functioning

act

job

running

effect

labour

handling

management

labor

surgical operation

agency

employment

manipulation

use

incision

administration

processing

behaviour

duty

exploitation

surgical procedure

effort

run

calculation

utilization

enterprise

occupation

motion

fatigue duty

manufacturing

section

movement

behavior

execution

affair

exercise

direction

doing

operational

surgical process

mathematical operation

mathematical process

military operation

cognitive operation

cognitive process

mental process

influence

project

service

operating

operate

usage

computation

operations

utilisation

task

composition law

driving

carry out

enact

enforcement

put into practice

put into practise

ability

achievement

conjugation

inflection

talent

workings

motions

bearing

manners

movements

actual work

carrying out

exploiting

maintenance

op.

efficacy

play

practice

deal

experience

experiment

production operation

production management

production control

formalization

actuation

efficiency

energy

workmanship

choral service

liturgy

mass

ministration

office

managment

acting

breaking-in

on stream

place in operation

start

manipulate

operational work

operating instruction

operational order

engage in

manage

set up business

modes of business operation

calculate

tally

wheeling

revolve

start-up

travel

turn round

undertaking

cut

cutting

slice

access

application

disposal

wear

wearing

measure

step

mechanics

dealing

delivery

editing

officiation

redaction

shipment

supply

transaction

efficaciousness

impact

impression

potency

attempt

bid

company

crack

down

essay

establishment

firm

fling

foray

go

offer

pass

seeking

stab

try

commission

the ranks

attack

charge

attendance

intervention

paper

presence

remark

speech

manoeuvre

pratcice

trade

functions

uses

surgical

military

proceedings

manipulator

operator

case

causa

policy

way

way to go

deed

functionality

operating capacity

operating procedure

operativity

exercitation

line

place

pursuits

blueprint

campaign

chore

crusade

works

control

governing

account

calculi

calculus

figuring

parallelization

reckoning

Hyphenated as

op‧e‧ra‧tion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.