【Dict.Wiki ❷⓿❷❷】operation meaning, operation slang, operation definition, operation translation.❤️️︎︎ What does operation mean? Meaning of operation. operation Meaning, slang, Define and pronunciation...

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. 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"

4. the state of being in effect or being operative;

• "that rule is no longer in operation"

5. 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"

6. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);

• "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"

7. (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);

• "it can perform millions of operations per second"

8. process or manner of functioning or operating;

• "the power of its engine determine its operation"
• "the plane's operation in high winds"
• "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"
• "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

9. (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"

10. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;

• "the process of thinking"
• "the cognitive operation of remembering"

11. the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);

• "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"