operació

See also: operacio and operáció

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin operātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.pə.ɾə.siˈo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.pə.ɾə.siˈo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [o.pe.ɾa.siˈo]

Noun

operació f (plural operacions)

1. An operation, the act or process of operating.
2. An planned undertaking.
3. A commercial transaction, especially speculative.
4. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
5. (computing, logic, mathematics) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
6. (military) A military campaign.

Derived terms

• sala d'operacions

 

• operació inversa

 

Related terms

• operar

Further reading

• “operació” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.