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Word: operation (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

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

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