English > operation: 11 senses > noun 4, process| Meaning | (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction). |
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| Example | "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
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| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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| Narrower | access, memory access | (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information |
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| asynchronous operation | operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events |
| auxiliary operation, off-line operation | A operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit |
| boolean operation, binary operation, binary arithmetic operation | An operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra |
| computer operation, machine operation | An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform |
| concurrent operation | Two or more operations performed at the same time (or within a give interval) |
| control operation, control function | An operation that controls the recording or processing or transmission of interpretation of data |
| dyadic operation | An operation on exactly two operands |
| fixed-cycle operation | An operation that is completed in a specified number of regularly timed execution cycles |
| logic operation, logical operation | An operation that follows the rules of symbolic logic |
| monadic operation, unary operation | An operation with exactly one operand |
| multiplex operation | An operation in which two or more activities are interleaved |
| parallel operation, simultaneous operation | The simultaneous execution of two or more operations |
| printing operation | An operation that controls the printing or display of information |
| search, lookup | An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property |
| serial operation, sequential operation, consecutive operation | The sequential execution of operations one after another |
| sort, sorting | An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion |
| synchronous operation | operations that are initiated predictably by a clock |
| threshold operation | An operation performed on operands in order to obtain the value of a threshold function |
| Broader | data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
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| Spanish | operación |
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| Catalan | operació |
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English > operation: 11 senses > noun 5, act| Meaning | Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign). |
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| Example | "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" |
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| Synonym | military operation |
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| Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine | The military forces of a nation |
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| Instances | Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation | An American operation in World War I (1918) |
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| Operation Desert Storm | The United States and its allies defeated Iraq in a ground war that lasted 100 hours (1991) |
| Narrower | amphibious operation | A military operation by both land and sea forces |
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| attack, onslaught, onset, onrush | (military) an offensive against an enemy / enemy (using weapons) |
| campaign, military campaign | Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) |
| combined operation | A military operation carried out cooperatively by two or more allied nations or a military operation carried out by coordination of sea, land, and air forces |
| covert operation | An intelligence operation so planned as to permit plausible denial by the sponsor |
| information gathering | The act of collecting information |
| maneuver, manoeuvre, simulated military operation | A military training exercise |
| mission, military mission | An operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters |
| naval campaign | An operation conducted primarily by naval forces in order to gain or extend or maintain control of the sea |
| offense, offence, offensive | The action of attacking an enemy / enemy |
| peacekeeping, peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation | The activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) |
| psychological operation, psyop | military actions designed to influence the perceptions and attitudes of individuals, groups, and foreign governments |
| support, reinforcement, reenforcement | A military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | maniobra, operación |
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| Catalan | maniobra, operació militar, operació |
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| Verbs | operate | perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense |
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English > operation: 11 senses > noun 6, act| Meaning | A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body. |
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| Example | "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available" |
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| Synonyms | surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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| Category of | ablate | Remove an organ or bodily structure |
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| decorticate | Remove the cortex / cortex of (an organ) |
| freeze | Anesthetize by cold |
| hypophysectomize, hypophysectomise | Remove the pituitary glands |
| suction | Empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction |
| trepan | cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery |
| Category | surgery | The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures |
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| Parts | hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia | surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat) |
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| incision, section, surgical incision | The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation) |
| suturing | Surgical joining of two surfaces |
| Narrower | Shirodkar's operation, purse-string operation | A surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman |
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| ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision | Surgical removal of a body part or tissue |
| amputation | A surgical removal of all or part of a limb |
| angioplasty | An operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery |
| arthroplasty | Surgical reconstruction or replacement / replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint |
| arthroscopy | A minimally invasive operation to repair a damaged joint |
| brain surgery | Any surgical procedure involving the brain |
| castration | Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) |
| catheterization, catheterisation | The operation of introducing a catheter into the body |
| cautery, cauterization, cauterisation | The act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing |
| chemosurgery | Use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue |
| craniotomy | A surgical opening / opening through the skull |
| cryosurgery | The use of extreme / extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) |
| curettage, curettement | surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette |
| debridement | Surgical removal of foreign / foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing |
| decortication | removal of the outer covering of an organ or part |
| dilation and curettage, dilatation and curettage, D and C | A surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet |
| electrosurgery | surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) |
| enterostomy, enterotomy | surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine |
| enucleation | Surgical removal of something without cutting into it |
| evisceration | Surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient |
| exenteration | Surgical removal of the organs within a body cavity (as those of the pelvis) |
| eye operation, eye surgery | Any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
| fenestration | surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis |
| gastrectomy | Surgical removal of all or part of the stomach |
| gastroenterostomy | Surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall / wall and the small intestines |
| gastrostomy | Surgical creation of an opening through the abdominal wall into the stomach (as for gastrogavage) |
| heart surgery | Any surgical procedure involving the heart |
| hemorrhoidectomy, haemorrhoidectomy | surgical procedure for tying hemorrhoids and excising them |
| hysterotomy | surgical incision into the uterus (as in cesarean section) |
| implantation | A surgical procedure that places something in the human body |
| intestinal bypass | surgical operation that shortens the small intestine |
| jejunostomy | Surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall |
| major surgery | Any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
| microsurgery | surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures |
| minor surgery | Any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
| myotomy | surgical incision or division of a muscle |
| myringectomy | Surgical removal of the eardrum |
| myringoplasty | Surgical repair of a perforated eardrum with a tissue graft |
| myringotomy | surgical incision into the eardrum (to relieve pressure or release pus from the middle ear) |
| neurosurgery | Any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) |
| orchiopexy | operation to bring an undescended testicle into the scrotum |
| osteotomy | Surgical sectioning of bone |
| ostomy | surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes |
| palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, UPPP | Surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway |
| phlebectomy | Surgical removal or all or part of a vein |
| photocoagulation | surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina |
| plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
| polypectomy | Surgical removal of a polyp |
| resection | Surgical removal of part of a structure or organ |
| rhinotomy | surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the nose to drain accumulated pus |
| rhizotomy | surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut |
| sex-change operation, transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
| sterilization, sterilisation | The act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) |
| strabotomy | The surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus |
| taxis | The surgical procedure of manually restoring a displaced body part |
| tracheostomy, tracheotomy | A surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air |
| transplant, transplantation, organ transplant | An operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient) |
| trephination | An operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull |
| tympanoplasty | Surgical correction or repair of defects or injuries in the eardrum or the bones of the middle ear |
| uranoplasty | Surgical correction of a defect of the palate |
| vasovasostomy | A surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy |
| vivisection | The act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research) |
| wrong-site surgery | A surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
| Broader | medical procedure | A procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
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| Spanish | cirugía, intervención, operación, procedimiento quirúrgico |
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| Catalan | cirurgia, intervenció, intervenció quirúrgica, operació, operació quirúrgica |
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| Adjectives | operative | relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine |
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| Verbs | operate | perform surgery on |
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English > operation: 11 senses > noun 10, act| Meaning | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods. |
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| Example | "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic" |
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| Synonyms | mathematical process, mathematical operation |
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| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
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| Narrower | arithmetic operation | A mathematical operation involving numbers |
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| combination | The act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order |
| construction | Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem |
| differentiation | The mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function |
| exponentiation, involution | The process of raising a quantity to some assigned power |
| integration | An operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined |
| matrix operation | A mathematical operation involving matrices |
| maximization | The mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function |
| permutation | The act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements |
| relaxation, relaxation method | A method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
| Broader | calculation, computation, computing | The procedure of calculating |
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| Spanish | operación matemática, operación, proceso matemático |
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| Catalan | operació matemàtica, operació, procés matemàtic |
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