Definition of Operativeness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being operative. ¹

2. Noun. The result or product of being operative. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Operativeness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Operativeness

operationalized
operationalizes
operationalizing
operationally
operationism
operationisms
operationist
operationists
operations
operations research
operative
operative dentistry
operative field
operative myxoedema
operatively
operativeness (current term)
operativenesses
operatives
operator
operator gene
operator region
operatorial
operatories
operatorless
operators
operatorship
operatorships
operatory
operatour
operatours

Literary usage of Operativeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Digest of Patent and Trade-mark Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of the by William Sydenham Torbert, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court (1909)
"operativeness. of mechanics familiar with this art. In re Clunies, 28 App. DC 18; 1906 CD 740; 123 OG 2631. 103. An application substantially for the ..."

2. The Works of Jonathan Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life and Character by Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards (1854)
"I say, that the operativeness of the mind on different ... Here it is manifest, that the Doctor uses the word operativeness as synonymous with operation, ..."

3. Patent Office Papers by United States Patent Office (1914)
"In ordinary mechanical cases, the operation of which can at once be understood, evidence upon the question of operativeness is seldom of any substantial use ..."

4. Digest of the Decisions of Law and Practice in the Patent Office from 1890 by Lepine Hall Rice, United States Patent Office (1900)
"operativeness of process. The operativeness of a process is not established by proof of the operativeness of the machine that effectuates the process. ..."

5. Patent Essentials for the Executive, Engineer, Lawyer and Inventor: A by John Franklin Robb, George Prescott Tucker, Louis William Maxson, Edwin Clark Reynolds, Loren Alonzo Sadler, Edward Collins (1922)
"The phase of successful operation or performance is highly important when that step is essential to a determination of the complete operativeness of an ..."

6. The Encyclopædia of Evidence by Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John Finley Crowe (1906)
"Rule 76 specifically provides for filing affidavits in regard to the operativeness of the invention claimed, and it is clear that the applicant has the ..."

7. Patent Office Pamphlets: May 28, 1914 to May 6, 1915by Patent Office, United States Patent Office, United States by Patent Office, United States Patent Office, United States (1914)
"In ordinary mechanical cases, the operation of which can at once be understood, evidence upon the question of operativeness is seldom of any substantial use ..."

8. Manual of Patent Examining Procedure edited by J. Michael Thesz (1997)
"... appears to be no basis in the statutes or decisions for requiring any more conclusive evidence of operativeness in one type of case than another. ..."

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