What part of speech is operation?

Operation can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

Inflections

Noun

What does operation mean?

Definitions

Noun

operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
operation - (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"
operation - activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"
operation - the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); "her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride"
operation - the state of being in effect or being operative; "that rule is no longer in operation"
operation - a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; "they organized a rescue operation"; "the biggest police operation in French history"; "running a restaurant is quite an operation"; "consolidate the companies various operations"
operation - 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"
operation - process or manner of functioning or operating; "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"
operation - a business especially one run on a large scale; "a large-scale farming operation"; "a multinational operation"; "they paid taxes on every stage of the operation"; "they had to consolidate their operations"
operation - (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods; "the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation"; "they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic"
operation - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking"; "the cognitive operation of remembering"

Examples of operation

#   Sentence  
1. noun They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available.
2. noun It was a joint operation of the navy and air force.
3. noun Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride.
4. noun That rule is no longer in operation.
5. noun They organized a rescue operation.
6. noun The biggest police operation in French history.
7. noun Running a restaurant is quite an operation.
8. noun The power of its engine determines its operation.
9. noun The plane's operation in high winds.
10. noun A large-scale farming operation.
11. noun A multinational operation.
12. noun They paid taxes on every stage of the operation.
13. noun The cognitive operation of remembering.
14. noun In 2001, according to Indian army officials, security forces launched a wide-ranging operation in the 300-some inhabited islands neighboring Andaman and Nicobar, and found huge caches of arms.
15. noun The search-and-destroy operation was carried out by the Indian government after repeated requests from Colombo.
Sentence  
noun
They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available.
It was a joint operation of the navy and air force.
Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride.
That rule is no longer in operation.
They organized a rescue operation.
The biggest police operation in French history.
Running a restaurant is quite an operation.
The power of its engine determines its operation.
The plane's operation in high winds.
A large-scale farming operation.
A multinational operation.
They paid taxes on every stage of the operation.
The cognitive operation of remembering.
In 2001, according to Indian army officials, security forces launched a wide-ranging operation in the 300-some inhabited islands neighboring Andaman and Nicobar, and found huge caches of arms.
The search-and-destroy operation was carried out by the Indian government after repeated requests from Colombo.

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