Operation

Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
Operation (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
Operations (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products
The Operation (film), a 1973 British television film
The Operation (1990), a crime, drama, TV movie starring Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe
The Operation (1992–1998), a reality television series from TLC
The Operation M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
"Operation", a song by Relient K from The Creepy EP, 2001
Business
Business operations, the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business
Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility
Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production
Military and law enforcement
Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
Black operation, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
Combined operations, operations by forces of two or more allied nations
Covert operation, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
Psychological operations, an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare
Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure
Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Science and technology
Inference, a step in reasoning
Information technology operations
Operation (mathematics), a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
Arity, number of arguments or operands that the function takes
Binary operation, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
Graph operations, produce new graphs from initial ones
Modulo operation, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
Operations research, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
Unary operation, an operation with only one operand
Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
Scientific operation
Surgical operation, or surgery, in medicine
Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Other uses
Anomalous operation, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
Operation, a word which represents a grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
See also
List of military operations
OP (disambiguation)
Operations support system, used in the telecommunications industry
Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
Operative (disambiguation)
Operator (disambiguation)