Definition of operation

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Operation (n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations..

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Mental :: Mental (a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise..
Noematachograph :: Noematachograph (n.) An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind.
Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth..
Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..
Esophagotomy :: Esophagotomy (n.) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus, for the purpose of removing any foreign substance that obstructs the passage..
Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..
Mastery :: Mastery (n.) A masterly operation; a feat.
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..
Suffumige :: Suffumigation (n.) The operation of suffumigating.
Deoxygenation :: Deoxygenation (n.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.
Product :: Product (n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain..
Omphalotomy :: Omphalotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the navel-string.
Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash..
Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
Operation :: Operation (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc..
Manufacture :: Manufacture (n.) The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency..
Battering Train :: Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations.
Cup :: Cup (v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.
Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..
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