operation | the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.), her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride |
operation | 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 |
rescue operation | an operation organized to free from danger or confinement |
undercover operation | an operation involving secret work within a community or institution |
buy-and-bust operation | an undercover operation by narcotics detectives to catch unsuspecting drug dealers |
display exhibit showing | something shown to the public, the museum had many exhibits of oriental art |
operation procedure | 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 surgery surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process | 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 |
eye operation eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
sexhange operation transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
Shirodkar's operation purse-string operation | a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman, is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies |
suicide mission martyr operation sacrifice operation | killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself, usually accomplished with a bomb |
sting operation | a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
riot control riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
mathematical process mathematical operation operation | (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 |
arithmetic operation | a mathematical operation involving numbers |
matrix operation | a mathematical operation involving matrices |
operation military operation | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign), it was a joint operation of the navy and air force |
combined operation | a military operation carried out cooperatively by two or more allied nations or a military operation carried out by coordination of sea, land, and air forces |
maneuver manoeuvre simulated military operation | a military training exercise |
peacekeeping peacekeeping mission peacekeeping operation | the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) |
amphibious operation | a military operation by both land and sea forces |
intelligence intelligence activity intelligence operation | the operation of gathering information about an enemy |
clandestine operation | an intelligence operation so planned and executed as to insure concealment |
exfiltration operation | a clandestine rescue operation to bring a defector or refugee or an operative and family out of danger |
psychological operation psyop | military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments |
covert operation | an intelligence operation so planned as to permit plausible denial by the sponsor |
black operation | a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out |
overt operation | the collection of intelligence openly without concealment |
operation | 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 |
field field of operation line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
Meuse Meuse River Argonne Argonne Forest Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
Operation Desert Storm | the United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted hours () |
case display case showcase vitrine | a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home |
computer screen computer display | a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user |
digital display alphanumeric display | a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters) |
display presentation | a visual representation of something |
display video display | an electronic device that represents information in visual form |
display adapter display adaptor | (computer science) an electronic device that converts information in memory to video output to a display |
display panel display board board | a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view |
display window shop window shopwindow show window | a window of a store facing onto the street, used to display merchandise for sale in the store |
dual scan display | a type of passive matrix display in which the top and bottom half of the screen are refreshed simultaneously |
flat panel display FPD | a type of video display that is thin and flat, commonly used in laptop computers |
liquid crystal display LCD | a digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field, used for portable computer displays and watches etc. |
passive matrix display | a type of LCD display used for some portable computers, parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized, passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
process cognitive process mental process operation cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity, an operation that affects mental contents, the process of thinking, the cognitive operation of remembering |
operation code order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |
display show | something intended to communicate a particular impression, made a display of strength, a show of impatience, a good show of looking interested |
display | exhibiting openly in public view, a display of courage |