Operation
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Operation or Operations may refer to:
Science and technology
- Surgical operation or surgery, in medicine
- Operation (mathematics), a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
- Arity, number of arguments or operands that the function takes
- Binary operation, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
- Graph operations, produce new graphs from initial ones
- Modulo operation, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
- Operations research, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
- Unary operation, an operation with only one operand
- Information technology operations
- Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
- Scientific operation
- Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Arts, entertainment and media
- Operation (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
- Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
- Operations (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products
- The Operation (film), a 1973 British television film
- The Operation (1990), a crime, drama, TV movie starring Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe
- The Operation (1992–1998), a reality television series from TLC
- The Operation M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
Business
- Business operations, the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business
- Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility
- Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production
Military and law enforcement
- Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
- Black operation, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
- Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
- Combined operations, operations by forces of two or more allied nations
- Covert operation, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
- Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
- Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure
- Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
- Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Other uses
- Operation, a word which represents a grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
- Anomalous operation, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
- Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
See also
- Operations support system, used in the telecommunications industry
- Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
- List of military operations
- OP (disambiguation)
- Operative (disambiguation)
- Operator (disambiguation)
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