| 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 |
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 () |
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 |
rationale
principle | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature), the rationale for capital punishment, the principles of internalombustion engines |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
pleasure principle
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id, the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality |
| reality principle | (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego, the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it |
| principle | a basic truth or law or assumption, the principles of democracy |
rudiment
first rudiment
first principle
alphabet
ABC
ABC's
ABCs | the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural), he mastered only the rudiments of geometry |
| principle rule | a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system, the principle of the conservation of mass, the principle of jet propulsion, the right-hand rule for inductive fields |
Archimedes' principle
law of Archimedes | (hydrostatics) the apparent loss in weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid |
Gestalt law of organization
Gestalt principle of organization | a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization |
Le Chatelier's principle
Le Chatelier's law
Le Chatelier principle
Le Chatelier-Braun principle | the principle that if any change is imposed on a system that is in equilibrium then the system tends to adjust to a new equilibrium counteracting the change |
Pauli exclusion principle
exclusion principle | no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers |
| principle rule | a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct, their principles of composition characterized all their works |
| principle | a rule or standard especially of good behavior, a man of principle, he will not violate his principles |
accounting principle
accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
ethic
moral principle
value-system
value orientation | the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group, the Puritan ethic, a person with old-fashioned values |
legal principle
judicial principle
judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |