Nouns (15)
operation
n. 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"
operation
n. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
operation
n. 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"
operation
n. (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"
operation
n. the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
performance, operation, functioning
n. 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"
operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure
n. 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"
operation, mathematical operation, mathematical process
n. (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"
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Fuzzynyms (30)
handling
n. manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
application, practical application
n. the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose; "he advocated the application of statistics to the problem"; "a novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis"
move, motion, movement, change of position
n. a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, subdivision
n. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
division
n. the act or process of dividing
business, commercial enterprise
n. the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
dealings, transaction, dealing
n. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me"
position
n. (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?"
commission, perpetration
n. the act of committing a crime
performance
n. the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"
dealings, transaction, dealing
n. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me"
amputation
n. a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs
application, lotion
n. liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin; "a lotion for dry skin"
procedure, process
n. a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
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floating-point operation
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