Definition of Operation

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Operation

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

The method of working; mode of action.

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

Effect produced; influence.

Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.

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.

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Operation Quotations

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Albert Einstein

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
Jay Leno

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
William F. Buckley, Jr.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Operation Translations

operation in Afrikaans is operasie
operation in Dutch is bewerking, operatie, ingreep
operation in German is Arbeitsablauf {m}, Betrieb, Arbeitsgang {m}
operation in Italian is fase di lavorazione, operazione, servizio
operation in Spanish is operacion

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