operation
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~ a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
operation
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~ process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
operation
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~ (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
operation
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~ a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
operation
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~ activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
operation
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~ the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
operation
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~ (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
operation
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~ a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
operation
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~ the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
operation
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~ a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
off-line operation
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~ a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit
operational damage
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~ loss of military equipment in field operations
operational casualty
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~ loss of military equipment in field operations
operational cell
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~ a terrorist cell that performs clandestine activities
operationalism
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~ (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it
operations
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~ financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records