operation
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
An organized activity involving multiple people.
Framework senses
- §1
- An organized activity involving multiple people.
- §1
- An active process; a discharge of a function.
- §1
- Data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).
- §1
- Data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).
- §1
- the activity of operating something such as a machine or business
- §2
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- §3
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- §4
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments
- §5
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- §6
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- §7
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- §8
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity
- §9
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- §10
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- §11
- the state of being in effect or being operative