operation

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English

Etymology

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.pəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: op‧e‧ra‧tion

Noun

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

1. The method by which a device performs its function.

2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4. A planned undertaking.

   The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.

   The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

5. A business or organization.

6. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
8. (computing, logic, mathematics) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)
   1. (mathematics, more formally) a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.

9. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
10. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): function, transformation

Derived terms

• (business or organization): mission operations

Related terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: オペレーション (operēshon)
• → Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

Translations

References

• operation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “operation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “operation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• petronoia

Interlingua

Noun

operation (plural operationes)

1. operation (surgical procedure)

Middle French

Noun

operation f (plural operations)

1. function; role

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin operātiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

operation c

1. an operation (planned undertaking)
2. (medicine) an operation
3. (mathematics) an operation
4. (military) an operation

Declension

References

• operation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)