operation
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(noun) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions: "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations" |
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Related Words: activity |
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(noun) an act or process or manner of functioning or operating: "the power of its engine determines its operation": "the plane's performance in high winds" |
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Synonyms: functioning, performance |
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Related Words: job, work |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: procedure |
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Related Words: work |
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(noun) a therapeutic procedure with instruments 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" |
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Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure |
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Related Words: D and C, Shirodkar's operation, ablation, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, autoplasty, castration, chemosurgery, colostomy, corneal gaft, cosmetic surgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, excision, extirpation, face lift, face lifting, heart surgery, jejunostomy, keratoplasty, laparotomy, lobotomy, major surgery, minor surgery, neurosurgery, nose job, plastic surgery, prefrontal leucotomy, prefrontal lobotomy, purse-string operation, rhinoplasty, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, sclerotomy, strabotomy, therapy, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, trephination, vivisection |
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(noun) a military or naval action (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" |
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Related Words: Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse, Meuse River, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation, Operation Desert Storm, action, amphibious operation, attack, campaign, covert operation, information gathering, maneuver, manoeuvre, military action, military campaign, military mission, mission, naval campaign, offence, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, reenforcement, reinforcement, simulated military operation, support |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: business activity, commercial activity |
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(noun) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
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Related Words: access, asynchronous operation, asynchronous working, auxiliary operation, binary arithmetic operation, binary operation, boolean operation, computer operation, concurrent operation, consecutive operation, control function, control operation, data processing, dyadic operation, fixed-cycle operation, logic operation, logical operation, lookup, machine operation, memory access, monadic operation, multiplex operation, off-line operation, parallel operation, printing operation, search, sequential operation, serial operation, simultaneous operation, sort, sorting, synchronous operation, threshold operation, unary operation |
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(noun) the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation" |
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Related Words: action, activeness, activity, commission, running |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process |
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Related Words: arithmetic operation, calculation, combination, computation, construction, differentiation, exponentiation, integration, involution, permutation |
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(noun) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the act of remembering" |
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Synonyms: act, cognitive operation, cognitive process, process |
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Related Words: basic cognitive process, cognition, higher cognitive process, knowledge |
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