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1.NounThe method by which a device performs its function."It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation."
2.NounThe method or practice by which actions are done.
3.NounThe act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4.NounA planned undertaking."The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.; The Katrina relief operation was considered botched."
5.NounA business or organization."We run our operation from a storefront.; They run a multinational produce-supply operation."
6.NounA surgical procedure."She had an operation to remove her appendix."
7.NounA procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands)."The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation."
8.NounA function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
9.NounA military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
10.NounEffect produced; influence.