operation


operation - noun

  • the state of being in effect or being operative
  • a business especially one run on a large scale
  • a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
  • (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
  • activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
  • a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
  • a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
  • process or manner of functioning or operating
  • (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
  • (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
  • the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)

    • operation - thesaurus

    functioning   performance   procedure   process   surgery  


    View spelling list Words ending in tion and learn about the word operation in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 28. Word endings: -tion, -cian, -sion.

    Scrabble score for operation

    o is 1 p is 3 e is 1 r is 1 a is 1 t is 1 i is 1 o is 1 n is 1
    Scrabble score = 11

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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