| 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 |
laser-assisted subepithelial keratomileusis
LASEK | a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea |
| laser trabecular surgery | eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor |
laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis
LASIK | a refractive surgery procedure that reshapes the cornea |
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 |
positron emission tomography
PET | using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) |
| 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 |
emission
emanation | the act of emitting, causing to flow forth |
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 () |
diode
semiconductor diode
junction rectifier
crystal rectifier | a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
laser
optical maser | an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light |
laser-guided bomb
LGB | a smart bomb that seeks the laser light reflected off of the target and uses it to correct its descent, laser-guided bombs cannot be used in cloudy weather |
| laser printer | electrostatic printer that focuses a laser beam to form images that are transferred to paper electrostatically |
light-emitting diode
LED | diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current, color depends on the material used |
organic light-emitting diode
OLED | a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers |
positron emission tomography scanner
PET scanner | a tomograph that produces cross-sectional Xays of metabolic processes in the body |
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 |
| emission | the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe) |
| emission spectrum | spectrum of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a self-luminous source |