Engelsk substantiv: operation | |||
1. | operation (om tilstand) the state of being in effect or being operative | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | That rule is no longer in operation. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | action, activeness, activity | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | commission, idle, running | ||
2. | operation (om handling) a business especially one run on a large scale | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A large-scale farming operation. A multinational operation. They paid taxes on every stage of the operation. They had to consolidate their operations. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | business activity, commercial activity | ||
3. | operation (om handling) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They organized a rescue operation. The biggest police operation in French history. Running a restaurant is quite an operation. Consolidate the companies various operations. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | activity | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | rescue operation, undercover operation | ||
4. | operation (om prosess) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It can perform millions of operations per second. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | data processing | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | access, asynchronous operation, auxiliary operation, binary arithmetic operation, binary operation, boolean operation, computer operation, concurrent operation, consecutive operation, control function, control operation, dyadic operation, fixed-cycle operation, logic operation, logical operation, lookup, machine operation, memory access, monadic operation, multiplex operation, off-line operation, parallel operation, printing operation, search, sequential operation, serial operation, simultaneous operation, sort, sorting, synchronous operation, threshold operation, unary operation | ||
Overordnet kategori | computer science, computing | ||
5. | operation (om handling) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | It was a joint operation of the navy and air force. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | military operation | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | activity | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | amphibious operation, attack, campaign, combined operation, covert operation, information gathering, maneuver, manoeuvre, military campaign, military mission, mission, naval campaign, offence, offense, offensive, onrush, onset, onslaught, peacekeeping, peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation, psychological operation, psyop, reenforcement, reinforcement, simulated military operation, support | ||
Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | Argonne, Argonne Forest, Meuse, Meuse River, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation, Operation Desert Storm | ||
Overordnet kategori | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
6. | operation (om handling) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available. He died while undergoing surgery. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | medical procedure | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | ablation, amputation, anaplasty, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, catheterisation, catheterization, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, cutting out, D and C, debridement, decortication, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, evisceration, excision, exenteration, extirpation, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, haemorrhoidectomy, heart surgery, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, organ transplant, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, plastic surgery, polypectomy, PPP, purse-string operation, reconstructive surgery, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, Shirodkar's operation, sterilisation, sterilization, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, transplant, transplantation, transsexual surgery, trephination, tympanoplasty, UPPP, uranoplasty, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection, wrong-site surgery | ||
Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis, incision, section, surgical incision, suturing | ||
Overordnet kategori | surgery | ||
Forekomster i samme kategori | ablate, decorticate, freeze, hypophysectomise, hypophysectomize, suction, trepan | ||
7. | operation (om handling) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The operations in building a house. Certain machine tool operations. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | procedure | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | work | ||
8. | operation (om prosess) process or manner of functioning or operating | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The power of its engine determines its operation. The plane's operation in high winds. They compared the cooking performance of each oven. The jet's performance conformed to high standards. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | functioning, performance | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | physical process, process | ||
9. | operation (om erkjendelse) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The process of thinking. The cognitive operation of remembering. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | cognition, knowledge, noesis | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | basic cognitive process, higher cognitive process | ||
Overordnet kategori | psychological science, psychology | ||
10. | operation (om handling) (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation. They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic. | ||
Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | mathematical operation, mathematical process | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | calculation, computation, computing | ||
Mere spesifikke uttrykk | arithmetic operation, combination, construction, differentiation, exponentiation, integration, involution, matrix operation, maximization, permutation, relaxation, relaxation method | ||
Overordnet kategori | math, mathematics, maths | ||
11. | operation (om handling) the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride. | ||
Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | activity | ||
Overordnet kategori | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||