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operation
  1. The method by which a device performs its function.
  2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
  3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  4. A planned undertaking.
  5. A business or organization.
  6. (medicine) A surgical procedure.
  7. (computing) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
  8. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
  9. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Queen would kick-start the most extensive undercover operation in the history of American law enforcement.”
      “The corner store appeared to be just a one-person operation.”
      “The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony that composers sought to capture and express.”
operator
  1. One who operates.
  2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
  3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
  4. Chinese whispers.
  5. (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
  6. A member of a military Special Operations unit.
  7. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
  8. (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “Another poignant shot captures the delight of machine operator Fritz Hummel after hearing by radio of the birth of his first son.”
      “Under such a concession, the private sector operator takes over responsibility to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the asset, such as a motorway.”
      “Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western male. Across the north and south to Key Largo, love for sale. No need to ask. He's a smooth operator.”
operative
  1. An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
  2. A spy, secret agent, or detective.
  3. A participant in an operation.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He worked as a computer operative at a local mail-order company.”
      “But neither one of these two fine Americans told me that she was an undercover operative at the CIA.”
      “He had excellent peripheral vision, a valuable quality for a private operative to possess.”
operant
operativeness
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being operative.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Please make absolutely sure to check the operativeness of the limit switch before delivery of the unit.”
      “Both Sicily Region, through a special law, and some local Institutions, have supported COPPEM operativeness since the beginning.”
      “She reminded the debate about Coppem bodies operativeness and methodologies to be adopted for achieving very concrete outcomes.”
operatorship
  1. The office of an operator
  2. The right to operate an oil well
operandum
  1. A lever, key or device installed in a operant chamber, upon which the "subject" exerts its responses. Sometimes referred to as a manipulandum. In the prototypical operant conditioning experiment, a rat (the subject) presses upon a lever (the operandum) which triggers the delivery of food (the reward or reinforcer).
operationalism
  1. (sciences) A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement
  2. Examples:
    1. “Third, Carnap realizes that the principle of operationalism is too restrictive.”
      “A large number of people said that the real was the measurable, which could be a sign of realism, operationalism, or hermeneutical realism.”
      “According to operationalism, STR changes the meanings of the concepts of space and time from the classical conception.”
operad
  1. (mathematics) A set of operations, each one having a fixed finite number of arguments and one output, which can be composed with others.
operationism
  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that the meaning of a term consists of the operation(s) performed in defining it
  2. Examples:
    1. “These definitions are in the style of logical positivism, logical empiricism, and the thesis of operationism.”
operationalizability
  1. The state or characteristic of being capable of being operationalized.
operance
  1. The act of operating or working; operation.
operationalisability
  1. Alternative spelling of operationalizability
operationalist
  1. A proponent of operationalism.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This suffices to qualify stress as a permissible concept from the operationalist standpoint.”
operationalisation
  1. Alternative spelling of operationalization
operationist
oper
  1. (Internet) A network operator on IRC.
  2. Synonyms:
operability
  1. The extent to which a system or device is operable.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The voltage is then incremented and the process continues until a determination is made as to the objects operability.”
      “In addition to the historic proportion test, a test was conducted that permitted no harvest from difficult or isolated operability.”
      “The priority is institutional reform in order to achieve operability, otherwise the system will collapse, as the commission did, last year.”
operationalization
  1. The act or process of operationalizing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It will include operationalization of infrastructure, platform and program services, provision of priority electronic services, evaluation of implementation.”
      “As a result, significant progress towards the operationalization of a conservation and management plan for the area has been achieved.”
      “Coordinating these actions with the work of the Secretariat and the Economic and Social Council is the key to its operationalization.”
operationality
  1. That characteristic of being operational.
operand
  1. (mathematics) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in
  2. Examples:
    1. “One possibility is that arithmetic activation is based on the conceptual identity of numerical operands, regardless of operand order or position.”
      “The header serves as the first comparison operand and each cell as the sequential second operand.”
      “Each operand specifies all attribute values as prescribed for the defined searches.”
operatress
  1. (dated) A female operator.
operatee
  1. Someone who has an operation.
operatour
  1. Obsolete form of operator.
operativity
operationalisations
  1. plural of operationalisation
operationalizations
operationalisms
  1. plural of operationalism
operationalists
  1. plural of operationalist
operationalities
  1. plural of operationality
operativenesses
operationists
  1. plural of operationist
operatorships
  1. plural of operatorship
operationisms
  1. plural of operationism
operabilities
operatresses
  1. plural of operatress
operanda
  1. plural of operandum
operatours
  1. plural of operatour
operations
  1. plural of operation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Like him, they identified the airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.”
      “Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.”
      “A group whose operations are all permutable with each other is called an Abelian group.”
operatives
  1. plural of operative
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “According to this, their operatives have insinuated themselves into many communities along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.”
      “If the operatives had come through Iran legally, there would have been Iranian stamps in their passports.”
      “Machines are manned by operatives in fixed positions, recruited and trained to fit specific jobs.”
operatees
  1. plural of operatee
operators
  1. plural of operator
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1925 he proved the Krull-Schmidt theorem for decomposing abelian groups of operators.”
      “Suppliers also get the benefit of accessing the database to find out what operators are selling in different parts of the country.”
      “As site supervisor, she also manages the operators, including the two partners.”
operants
operands
  1. plural of operand
operads
  1. plural of operad
opers
  1. plural of oper
  2. Synonyms:
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