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      operation
      noun
      (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
      (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
      (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
      (countable) A planned undertaking.
      (countable) A business or organization.
      (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
      (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
      (mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
      (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
      (obsolete, countable) Effect produced; influence.
      Roots
      opusoper- · Latin · work
      Synonyms for operation
      procedurenoperatingadjfunctioningnoperationaladjoperativeadjresectionnperformancenexcisionnundertakingnmissionn
      Words related to operation
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