opération

Definitions of opération
  1. noun
    the state of being in effect or being operative
    synonyms: fonctionnement, marche
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    activité
    the state of being active
  2. noun
    activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
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    manoeuvre
    a military training exercise
    campagne
    several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)
    mission
    an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
    aide, appui, secours, soutien
    a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
    attaque
    (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
    offensive
    the action of attacking an enemy
    opération amphibie
    a military operation by both land and sea forces
    rassemblement d'informations
    the act of collecting information
    campagne
    a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
    invasion
    an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
    contre, riposte
    an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc.
    bombardement
    an attack by dropping bombs
    renseignement
    the operation of gathering information about an enemy
    coup de feu
    the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
    attaque par surprise
    an attack without warning
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    activité, occupation
    any specific behavior
  3. noun
    a business especially one run on a large scale
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    activité commerciale
    activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise
  4. noun
    (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
    synonyms: opération mathématique
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    élévation à une puissance
    the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
    opération arithmétique
    a mathematical operation involving numbers
    division
    an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
    addition
    the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
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    calcul
    the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
  5. noun
    a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
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    chirurgie plastique
    surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
    stérilisation
    the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
    transplantation
    an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
    vivisection
    the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
    castration
    the sterilization of an animal
  6. noun
    a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
    synonyms: fonctionnement, performance, procédure
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    travail
    activity directed toward making or doing something
  7. 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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    tâche informatique
    an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform
    opération d'impression
    an operation that controls the printing or display of information
    recherche
    an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
    classement
    an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
    virgule flottante
    an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
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    traitement automatique de l'information
    (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information
  8. noun
    a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
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    activité, occupation
    any specific behavior
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