operation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˈeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: operations
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos
Proto-Italic *opos
Latin opus
Latin opera
Latin -ātus
Latin operātus
Latin operor
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin operātiōder.
Old French operacionbor.
Middle English operacioun
English operation
From Middle English operacioun, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
glosses: The method by which a device performs its function.
glosses: The method or practice by which actions are done.
examples: text: the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 8:
text: Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: operating#Noun
glosses: The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
examples: text: The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
text: The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
glosses: A planned undertaking.
examples: text: We run our operation from a storefront.
text: They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
glosses: A business or organization.
examples: text: She had an operation to remove her appendix.
text: This done, ſhe performs the very ſame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then ſhe ſtitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chriſtmas to Candlemas, and after.
ref: 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion […] , London: James Hodges; B. Collins, →OCLC, page 157:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure.
examples: text: The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: function
transformation
glosses: A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: function
transformation
glosses: A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
qualifier: more formally
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
examples: text: The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Effect produced; influence.
Derived terms: word: additive operation
word: arithmetic operation
word: binary operation
word: black bag operation
word: black operation
word: ClickOps
word: co-operation
word: cottage food operation
word: counteroperation
word: cyberoperation
word: DataOps
word: DevOps
word: DevSecOps
word: disoperation
word: driver-only operation
word: dyadic operation
word: floating point operation
word: floating-point operation
word: Gigli's operation
word: group operation
word: grow operation
word: Hartmann's operation
word: hyperoperation
word: in operation
word: interoperation
word: intraoperation
word: line of operations
word: logical operation
word: maloperation
word: microoperation
word: misoperation
word: multioperation
word: multiplicative operation
word: operationism
word: operationist
word: operation of law
word: oplan
word: pivot operation
word: postoperation
word: preoperation
word: Récamier's operation
word: reoperation
word: screwdriver operation
word: set operation
word: sex-change operation
word: short-circuit logical operation
word: special military operation
word: special operation
word: suboperation
word: teleoperation
word: unary operation
word: unit operation
topics: organization
business
word: mission operations
Related terms: opera
operable
operand
operant
operate
operational
operative
operator
opus