operation

Meaning

Noun

• The method by which a device performs its function.
• The method or practice by which actions are done.
• The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• A planned undertaking.
• A business or organization.
• A surgical procedure.
• A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
  a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
• A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
• Effect produced; influence.

Related

Similar words

• function, transformation

Origin

• From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin operātiō, from the verb operor, from opus, operis. Equivalent to operate + -ion.