operation

  1. Noun.  The method by which a device performs its function.
  2. Noun.  The method or practice by which actions are done.
  3. Noun.  A planned undertaking.
  4. Noun.  A business or organization.
  5. Noun.  (medicine) a surgical procedure.
  6. Noun.  (mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands; the value for any particular operands is unique).
  7. Noun.  (military) a military campaign (''w:Operation Desert Storm'').

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