释义 |
Noun: operation `ópu'reyshun- The state of being in effect or being operative
"that rule is no longer in operation" - A business especially one run on a large scale
"a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations" - A planned activity involving many people performing various actions
"they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations" - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
"it can perform millions of operations per second" - Activity by a military or naval force (as a manoeuvre or campaign)
"it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" -
Derived forms: operations See also: operate, operational, operative Type of: action, activeness, activity, business activity, calculation, cognition, commercial activity, computation, computing, data processing, knowledge, medical procedure, noesis, physical process, process, work Encyclopedia: Operation |