Definitions For Operation

noun

• The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
• A planned activity involving many people performing various actions
• A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
• A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
• (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
• Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
• A business especially one run on a large scale
• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
• (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
• Process or manner of functioning or operating
• The state of being in effect or being operative
• A process in which a doctor cuts into someone's body in order to repair or remove a damaged or diseased part
• A usually small business or organization
• An activity of a business or organization