operation | |
1. n. The method by which a device performs its function. | |
It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation. | |
2. n. The method or practice by which actions are done. | |
3. n. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. | |
4. n. A planned undertaking. | |
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets. | |
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched. | |
5. n. A business or organization. | |
We run our operation from a storefront. | |
They run a multinational produce-supply operation. | |
6. n. (medicine) A surgical procedure. | |
She had an operation to remove her appendix. | |
7. n. (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands). | |
8. n. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm) | |
9. n. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence. | |