operations

Noun

• financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records
• the state of being in effect or being operative
• a business especially one run on a large scale
  • "they had to consolidate their operations"
• a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
  • "consolidate the companies various operations"
• (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"
• activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
• a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
• 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"
• process or manner of functioning or operating
• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
• (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
  • "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
• the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
• plural of operation

Synonyms

cognitive operation, cognitive process, functioning, mathematical operation, mathematical process, mental process, military operation, operation, performance, procedure, process, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, trading operations