Dictionary Entry
operation
operation is a 9-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- 2noun
The method of working; mode of action.
- 3noun
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
- 4noun
Effect produced; influence.
- 5noun
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
- 6noun
Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
- 7noun
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
"her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
- 8noun
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
"they organized a rescue operation"
"the biggest police operation in French history"
- 9noun
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
"the operations in building a house"
"certain machine tool operations"
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- 10noun
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
"they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"
"he died while undergoing surgery"
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- 11noun
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
"the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"
"they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
- 12noun
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
"it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
- 13noun
a business especially one run on a large scale
"a large-scale farming operation"
"a multinational operation"
- 14noun
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
"the process of thinking"
"the cognitive operation of remembering"
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- 15noun
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
"it can perform millions of operations per second"
- 16noun
process or manner of functioning or operating
"the power of its engine determines its operation"
"the plane's operation in high winds"
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- 17noun
the state of being in effect or being operative
"that rule is no longer in operation"
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