Synonyms: operation
Definition: the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
Usage: her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: operation
Definition: a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
Usage: they organized a rescue operation; the biggest police operation in French history; running a restaurant is quite an operation; consolidate the companies various operations
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: operation, procedure
Definition: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
Usage: the operations in building a house; certain machine tool operations
Similar words: work
Definition: activity directed toward making or doing something
Usage: she checked several points needing further work
Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, operation
Definition: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
Usage: they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available; he died while undergoing surgery
Similar words: medical procedure
Definition: a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners
Synonyms: operation, mathematical operation, mathematical process
Definition: (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
Usage: the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation; they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic
Similar words: computing, computation, calculation
Definition: the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
Synonyms: military operation, operation
Definition: activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
Usage: it was a joint operation of the navy and air force
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: operation
Definition: a business especially one run on a large scale
Usage: a large-scale farming operation; a multinational operation; they paid taxes on every stage of the operation; they had to consolidate their operations
Similar words: business activity, commercial activity
Definition: activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise
Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, operation, mental process, process
Definition: (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
Usage: the process of thinking; the cognitive operation of remembering
Similar words: noesis, knowledge, cognition
Definition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Synonyms: operation
Definition: (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
Usage: it can perform millions of operations per second
Similar words: data processing
Definition: (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information
Synonyms: operation, performance, functioning
Definition: process or manner of functioning or operating
Usage: the power of its engine determines its operation; the plane's operation in high winds; they compared the cooking performance of each oven; the jet's performance conformed to high standards
Similar words: physical process, process
Definition: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
Usage: events now in process; the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls
Synonyms: operation
Definition: the state of being in effect or being operative
Usage: that rule is no longer in operation
Similar words: action, activeness, activity
Definition: the state of being active
Usage: his sphere of activity; he is out of action