Operation

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
2. (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4. (countable) A planned undertaking.
5. (countable) A business or organization.
6. (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
7. (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
8. (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).

Example Sentences

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

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.

The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.

The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

We run our operation from a storefront.

They run a multinational produce-supply operation.

She had an operation to remove her appendix.

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