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operation

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An organized activity involving multiple people.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Senses

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

An active process; a discharge of a function.

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction).

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the activity of operating something such as a machine or business

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a planned activity involving many people performing various actions

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a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

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a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments

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(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

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activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

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a business especially one run on a large scale

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(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity

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(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)

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process or manner of functioning or operating

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the state of being in effect or being operative

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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functioningmathematical operationmathematical processmilitary operationperformanceprocedureprocesssurgerysurgical operationsurgical proceduresurgical processtrading operations
alternatephrasing
OperationOperations
plural
operations
possessive
operation's
pluralpossessive
operations'