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The method by which a device performs its function.
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The method or practice by which actions are done.
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The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
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A planned undertaking.
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The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
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A business or organization.
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They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
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A surgical procedure.
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She had an operation to remove her appendix.
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A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
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A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
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Effect produced; influence.