Lexic.us

Definition of Operation

1. Noun. The state of being in effect or being operative. "That rule is no longer in operation"

2. Noun. A business especially one run on a large scale. "They had to consolidate their operations"

3. Noun. A planned activity involving many people performing various actions. "Consolidate the companies various operations"

4. Noun. (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"

5. Noun. Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign). "It was a joint operation of the navy and air force"

6. Noun. A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body. "He died while undergoing surgery"

7. Noun. A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work. "Certain machine tool operations"

8. Noun. Process or manner of functioning or operating. "The jet's performance conformed to high standards"

9. Noun. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents. "The cognitive operation of remembering"

10. Noun. (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods. "They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"

11. Noun. The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.). "Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"

Definition of Operation

1. n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

Definition of Operation

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

2. Noun. The method or practice by which actions are done. ¹

3. Noun. A planned undertaking. ¹

4. Noun. A business or organization. ¹

5. Noun. (medicine) a surgical procedure. ¹

6. Noun. (mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operands is unique) ¹

7. Noun. (military) a military campaign (''w:Operation Desert Storm'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Operation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Operation

1. 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. "The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach." (Locke) "Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection." (Dryden) 2. The method of working; mode of action. 3. That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations." 4. Effect produced; influence. "The bards . . . Had great operation on the vulgar." (Fuller) 5. Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. 6. Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc. Calculus of operations. See Calculus. Origin: L. Operatio: cf. F. Operation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Operation

operating procedure operating room operating room information systems operating room nursing operating room technicians operating rooms operating statement operating surgeon operating system operating systems

operating table operating theater operating theatre operating theatres operating time operation (current term) operation code operation of law operational operational casualty

operational cell operational damage operational definition operational research operational service period operational service periods operational taxonomic unit operationalisability operationalisable operationalisation

Literary usage of Operation

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

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"He finds in literature 24 cases where insanity followed operation, ... In analyzing these cases he finds that the rôle of the operation may be a variable ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1902)
"operation, ischiorectal sinus incised and packed; vaginal incision and drainage. ... operation, vaginal incision enlarged and drainage. Recovered. ..."

3. Library Journal by Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1899)
"There are four practical methods by which co-operation may come In to ameliorate ... By co-operation in cataloging is meant the employment of some method by ..."

4. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"Simple co-operation is always the prevailing form, in those branches of ... Co-operation ever constitutes the fundamental form of the capitalist mode of ..."

5. Elements of the Integral Calculus: With a Key to the Solution of Dfferential by William Elwood Byerly, Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1895)
"From this point of view the symbol is called a symbol of operation, and the expression written after the symbol is called the subject of the operation. ..."

6. The Lancet (1898)
"I think, too, that if the surgeon can have the choice he should undertake the operation in fine, warm weather so that the child can the sooner be taben out ..."

7. A Treatise on Orthopedic Surgery by Royal Whitman (1903)
"The deaths due directly to the operation were 21 (16.45 per cent. ... Laminectomy is an incomplete operation in the sense that the disease of the bone is ..."

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