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operation

noun
/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/UK/ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/US/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/CA/ˌɔp.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos Proto-Italic *opos Latin opus Latin opera Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin operātus Latin operor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin operātiōder. Old French operacionbor. Middle English operacioun English operation From Middle English operacioun, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“to work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.

  1. derived from operātiō
  2. derived from operacion
  3. inherited from operacioun

Definitions

  1. The method by which a device performs its function.

    • It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.

  2. The method or practice by which actions are done.

  3. The act or process of operating (verb)

    The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

    • the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.
    • Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A planned undertaking.

      • The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
      • The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

    2. A business or organization.

      • We run our operation from a storefront.
      • They run a multinational produce-supply operation.

    3. A surgical procedure.

      • She had an operation to remove her appendix.

    4. A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

      • The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.

    5. A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).

    6. Effect produced

      Effect produced; influence.

      • The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.

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Derived

additive operation, arithmetic operation, binary operation, black bag operation, black operation, ClickOps, co-operation, cottage food operation, counteroperation, cyberoperation, DataOps, DevOps, DevSecOps, disoperation, driver-only operation, dyadic operation, floating point operation, floating-point operation, Gigli's operation, group operation, grow operation, Hartmann's operation, hyperoperation, in operation, interoperation, intraoperation, line of operations, logical operation, maloperation, microoperation, misoperation, multioperation, multiplicative operation, operationism, operationist, operation of law, oplan, pivot operation, postoperation, preoperation · +13 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for operation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA