14 synonyms found - words and phrases with similiar meaning.
Definition
noun
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- the state of being in effect or being operative