Operation

Definitions of Operation
  1. noun
    a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
    synonyms: Prozedur, Verfahren, ordnungsgemäßes Vorgehen
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    Arbeit
    activity directed toward making or doing something
  2. noun
    (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
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    logische Operation
    an operation that follows the rules of symbolic logic
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    Datenverarbeitung
    (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information
  3. noun
    a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
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    Organtransplantation, Organverpflanzung
    an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
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