operations

n. act of operating; working, performance, handling; venture, undertaking; series of actions, procedure (e.g. mathematical operations); campaign, series of activities to achieve a goal (e.g. military operations); surgery

Operation may refer to:Scientific Operation.Surgery operation.An operation or operator in mathematics. See unary operation, binary operation, arity.In language, an operation is a word which represents a function (or instruction) rather than a term, or a name.In computer science, an operation is called an instruction.Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces.Covert operation, a military or political action that is both clandestine and denied by the government undertaking the action.Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime by means of deception.Business operations, manufacturing operations, operations management.Operations Support Systems used in the telecommunications industryOperation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a part.Anomalous operation, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects.Musical operations such as transposition, inversion, multiplication, permutation, counterpoint.Operation (game), a battery-operated game of physical skill.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

n. dealings, proceedings

n. operation, deal, transaction, process, project

Noun
1. financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records
(synonym) trading operations
(hypernym) transaction, dealing, dealings

Noun
1. 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"
(hypernym) business activity, commercial activity
(derivation) operate, run
2. 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"
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) rescue operation
3. a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"
(synonym) procedure
(hypernym) work
(derivation) function, work, operate, go, run
4. the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
(hypernym) action, activity, activeness
(hyponym) commission
(derivation) engage, mesh, lock, operate
5. a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
(synonym) surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process
(hypernym) medical procedure
(hyponym) ablation, extirpation, cutting out, excision
(part-meronym) hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia
(derivation) operate on, operate
(classification) surgery
(class) freeze
6. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
(synonym) military operation
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) combined operation
(derivation) manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
7. (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"
(hypernym) data processing
(hyponym) access, memory access
(classification) computer science, computing
8. process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
(synonym) functioning, performance
(hypernym) process
(derivation) function, work, operate, go, run
9. (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
(synonym) mathematical process, mathematical operation
(hypernym) calculation, computation, computing
(hyponym) permutation
(classification) mathematics, math, maths
10. (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"
(synonym) process, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation
(hypernym) cognition, knowledge, noesis
(hyponym) basic cognitive process
(derivation) operate
(classification) psychology, psychological science
11. the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
(hypernym) activity
(derivation) operate, run
(classification) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business