operation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
medicine
military
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos
Proto-Italic *opos
Latin opus
Latin opera
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -or
Latin operor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
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 (“to work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate + -ion.
Base: operate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: operations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The method by which a device performs its function.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
gloss: The method or practice by which actions are done.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.
Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
gloss: A planned undertaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
gloss: A business or organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We run our operation from a storefront.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
gloss: A surgical procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She had an operation to remove her appendix.
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.
gloss: A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.
gloss: A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Effect produced; influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.
Related words: opera
operable
operand
operant
operate
operational
operative
operator
opus
Derived words: additive operation
arithmetic operation
binary operation
black bag operation
black operation
ClickOps
co-operation
cottage food operation
counteroperation
cyberoperation
DataOps
DevOps
DevSecOps
disoperation
driver-only operation
dyadic operation
floating point operation
floating-point operation
Gigli's operation
group operation
grow operation
Hartmann's operation
hyperoperation
in operation
interoperation
intraoperation
line of operations
logical operation
maloperation
microoperation
misoperation
multioperation
multiplicative operation
operationism
operationist
operation of law
oplan
pivot operation
postoperation
preoperation
Récamier's operation
reoperation
screwdriver operation
set operation
sex-change operation
short-circuit logical operation
special military operation
special operation
suboperation
teleoperation
unary operation
unit operation
mission operations
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَمَلِيَّة
roman: ʕamaliyya
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əməl
lang: Bashkir
word: ғәмәл
roman: ğəməl
lang: Bulgarian
word: опера́ция
roman: operácija
lang: Bulgarian
word: де́йствие
roman: déjstvie
lang: Catalan
word: operació
lang: Czech
word: postup
lang: Esperanto
word: operacio
lang: Finnish
word: laskutoimitus
lang: Finnish
word: operaatio
lang: French
word: opération
lang: German
word: Operation
lang: German
word: Verknüpfung
lang: Greek
word: πράξη
roman: práxi
lang: Hungarian
word: művelet
lang: Icelandic
word: aðgerð
lang: Ido
word: operaco
lang: Irish
word: oibríocht
lang: Italian
word: operazione
lang: Japanese
word: 演算
roman: enzan
lang: Kazakh
word: амал
roman: amal
lang: Latvian
word: operācija
lang: Low German
word: Operatschoon
lang: Māori
word: paheko
lang: Norman
word: opéthâtion
lang: Persian
word: عمل
roman: 'amal
lang: Polish
word: operacja
lang: Portuguese
word: operação
lang: Russian
word: опера́ция
roman: operácija
lang: Russian
word: де́йствие
roman: déjstvije
lang: Spanish
word: operación
lang: Swahili
word: operesheni
lang: Tajik
word: амал
roman: amal
lang: Turkish
word: işlem