| 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 |
| 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 |
| operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
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 |
| airborne patrol | a patrol provided by aircraft |
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 |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
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 |
operations
trading operations | financial transactions at a brokerage, having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records |
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 () |
| base base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations, the attack wiped out our forward bases |
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 |
field field of operations
theater
theater of operations
theatre
theatre of operations | a region in which active military operations are in progress, the army was in the field awaiting action, he served in the Vietnam theater for three years |
| airborne transmission | a transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract |
| asynchronous operation | operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events |
auxiliary operation
off-line operation | a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit |
boolean operation
binary operation
binary arithmetic operation | an operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra, each operand and the result take one of two values |
computer operation
machine operation | an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform |
| concurrent operation | two or more operations performed at the same time (or within a give interval) |
control operation
control function | an operation that controls the recording or processing or transmission of interpretation of data, a control operation started the data processing |
| dyadic operation | an operation on exactly two operands |
| fixedycle operation | an operation that is completed in a specified number of regularly timed execution cycles |
floating-point operation
flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |