operation
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (RP) IPA: /ˌɒpəˈɹeɪʃən/, /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /%Qp@"reIS@n/, /%Qp@(r)"eIS@n/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- (GenAm) IPA: /ˌɑːpəˈɹeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /%A:p@"reIS@n/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun [edit]
operation (plural operations)
- 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.
- The method or practice by which actions are done.
- A planned undertaking.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
- A business or organization.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
- (medicine) a surgical procedure.
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- (mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operands is unique)
- (military) a military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
Synonyms [edit]
- (mathematics): function
- (mathematics): transformation
Related terms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
method by which a device performs its function
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method or practice by which actions are done
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surgical procedure
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procedure for generating a value from one or more other values
military campaign
External links [edit]
- operation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- operation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams [edit]
Middle French [edit]
Noun [edit]
operation f (plural operations)
- function; role
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
- C'est tesmoignage de crudité et indigestion que de regorger la viande comme on l'a avallée. L'estomac n'a pas faict son operation, s'il n'a faict changer la façon et la forme a ce qu'on luy avoit donné à cuire.
- It's testament of rawness and indigestion when one regurgitates meat in the same state as one swallowed it. The stomach hasn't done its function if it hasn't change the shape and the form of what one has given it to cook.
- C'est tesmoignage de crudité et indigestion que de regorger la viande comme on l'a avallée. L'estomac n'a pas faict son operation, s'il n'a faict changer la façon et la forme a ce qu'on luy avoit donné à cuire.
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
