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performance, operation, functioning | process or manner of functioning or operating | |
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operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process | [in surgery] a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | |
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operation | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | |
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operation, mathematical process, mathematical operation | [in mathematics] calculation by mathematical methods | |
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operation | the state of being in effect or being operative | |
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operation, military operation | [in military] activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | |
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process, operation, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation | [in psychology] the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | |
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procedure, operation | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | |
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operation | [in computer_science] data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) | |
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operation | a business especially one run on a large scale | |
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operation | [in commercial_enterprise] the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) |