Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
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''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
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Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
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''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products
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''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
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The Operation M.D.
The Operation M.D. (formerly The Operation) is a Canadian garage rock band created by Doctors Dynamite (Cone of Sum 41) and Rocco (Todd Morse of H2O) as a side project to their other bands. The band's debut album, ''We Have an Emergency'', was ...
, formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
* "Operation", a song by Relient K from ''
The Creepy EP
''The Creepy EP'' is the second EP by American rock band Relient K. It contains two songs from their later full-length release, ''The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek'', and four exclusive tracks. This EP, along with Relient K's other early EPs, i ...
'', 2001
Business
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Business operations
Business operations is the ''harvesting'' of value from assets owned by a business. Assets can be either ''physical'' or '' intangible''. An example of value derived from a physical asset, like a building, is rent. An example of value derived fro ...
, the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business
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Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility
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Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production
Military and law enforcement
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Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
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Black operation, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
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Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
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Combined operations
In current military use, combined operations are operations conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together for the accomplishment of a common strategy, a strategic and operational and sometimes tactical cooperation. Interactio ...
, operations by forces of two or more allied nations
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Covert operation
A covert operation is a military operation intended to conceal the identity of (or allow plausible deniability by) the party that instigated the operation. Covert operations should not be confused with clandestine operations, which are performe ...
, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
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Psychological operations, an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare
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Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
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Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure
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Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
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Sting operation
In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime. A typical sting will have an undercover law enforcement officer, detective, or co-operative member of the public play a role a ...
, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Science and technology
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Inference
Inferences are steps in reasoning, moving from premises to logical consequences; etymologically, the word '' infer'' means to "carry forward". Inference is theoretically traditionally divided into deduction and induction, a distinction that in ...
, a step in reasoning
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Information technology operations
Data center management is the collection of tasks performed by those responsible for managing ongoing operation of a data center This includes ''Business service management'' and planning for the future.
Historically, ''data center management'' w ...
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Operation (mathematics), a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
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Arity
Arity () is the number of arguments or operands taken by a function, operation or relation in logic, mathematics, and computer science. In mathematics, arity may also be named ''rank'', but this word can have many other meanings in mathematics. In ...
, number of arguments or operands that the function takes
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Binary operation
In mathematics, a binary operation or dyadic operation is a rule for combining two elements (called operands) to produce another element. More formally, a binary operation is an operation of arity two.
More specifically, an internal binary op ...
, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
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Graph operations
In the mathematical field of graph theory, graph operations are operations which produce new graphs from initial ones. They include both unary (one input) and binary (two input) operations.
Unary operations
Unary operations create a new graph f ...
, produce new graphs from initial ones
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Modulo operation, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
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Operations research, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
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Unary operation, an operation with only one operand
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Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
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Scientific operation
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific m ...
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Surgical operation
Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...
or surgery, in medicine
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Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Other uses
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Anomalous operation
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...
, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
* Operation, a word which represents a
grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
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Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
See also
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List of military operations
This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.
World War I
''See also List of military engagements of World War I''
*''Albion'' (1917) — German capture of Oesel ...
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OP (disambiguation)
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Operations support system, used in the telecommunications industry
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Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
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Operative (disambiguation)
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Operator (disambiguation)
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