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)
Musical set theory provides concepts for categorizing musical objects and describing their relationships. Howard Hanson first elaborated many of the concepts for analyzing tonal music. Other theorists, such as Allen Forte, further developed th ...
, 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
Joseph Edward Penny Jr. (born 24 June 1956) is an English-born American actor best known for his roles as Nick Ryder on the detective series ''Riptide'' from 1984 to 1986, and as Jake Styles in the CBS television series ''Jake and the Fatman'' ...
, Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe
* ''The Operation'' (1992–1998), a reality television series from
TLC
TLC may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Television
* ''TLC'' (TV series), a 2002 British situational comedy television series that aired on BBC2
* TLC (TV network), formerly the Learning Channel, an American cable TV network
** TLC (Asia), an A ...
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The Operation M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
* "Operation", a song by Relient K from ''
The Creepy EP'', 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
Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizat ...
, 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 operation is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation. These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state or actor's favor. Operations may ...
, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
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Black operation
A black operation or black op is a covert or clandestine operation by a government agency, a military unit or a paramilitary organization; it can include activities by private companies or groups. Key features of a black operation are that it i ...
, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
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Clandestine operation
A clandestine operation is an intelligence or military operation carried out in such a way that the operation goes unnoticed by the general population or specific enemy forces.
Until the 1970s, clandestine operations were primarily political in ...
, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
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Combined operations, 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
Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), have been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations (MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and M ...
, an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare
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Special operations
Special operations (S.O.) are military activities conducted, according to NATO, by "specially designated, organized, selected, trained, and equipped forces using unconventional techniques and modes of employment". Special operations may include ...
, military operations that are unconventional
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Operations (J3)
The Operations (J3) directorate is the Continental Staff System branch of the U.S. DOD Joint Staff responsible for military operations.
It is the third level of the US National Level Command Structure, primarily assists the Chairman of the Joint ...
, third level of Nation Level Command Structure
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Operations (military staff)
Military operations is a concept and application of military science that involves planning the operations for the projected maneuvering forces' provisions, services, training, and administrative functions—to allow them to commence, insert, ...
, staff involved in planning operations
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Sting operation, 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)
In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (also called "''operands''" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value. The number of operands is the arity of the operation.
The most commonly studied operatio ...
, 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
In computing, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another (called the '' modulus'' of the operation).
Given two positive numbers and , modulo (often abbreviated as ) is th ...
, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
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Operations research
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...
, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
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Unary operation
In mathematics, an unary operation is an operation with only one operand, i.e. a single input. This is in contrast to binary operations, which use two operands. An example is any function , where is a set. The function is a unary operation on ...
, an operation with only one operand
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Rail transport operations
Rail transport operations are the day-to-day operations of a railway. A railway has two major components: the infrastructure (the permanent way, tracks, stations, freight facilities, viaducts, tunnels, etc.) and the rolling stock (the locomotiv ...
, the control of a rail system
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Scientific operation
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Surgical operation or surgery, in medicine
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Unit operation
In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. Unit operations involve a physical change or chemical transformation such as separation, crystallization, evaporation, filtration, polymerization, isomeriza ...
, 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
In linguistics, grammatical relations (also called grammatical functions, grammatical roles, or syntactic functions) are functional relationships between constituents in a clause. The standard examples of grammatical functions from traditional gra ...
(i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
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Operation of law
The phrase "by operation of law" is a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party, irrespective of the intent of that party, because it is dictated by existing legal principles. For example, if a person dies wi ...
, 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
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OP (disambiguation)
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Operations support system
Operations support systems (OSS), operational support systems in British usage, or Operation System (OpS) in NTT, are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers to manage their networks (e.g., telephone networks). They support ...
, used in the telecommunications industry
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Operations room
A control room or operations room is a central space where a large physical facility or physically dispersed service can be monitored and controlled. It is often part of a larger command center.
Overview
A control room's purpose is produc ...
, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
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Operative (disambiguation)
Operative may refer to:
* Operative Media, an advertising company, founded 2000
* ''The Operative'' (film), a 2019 thriller film
* The Operative (Firefly), a character from the ''Firefly'' media franchise
* '' The Operative: No One Lives Foreve ...
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Operator (disambiguation)
Operator may refer to:
Mathematics
* A symbol indicating a mathematical operation
* Logical operator or logical connective in mathematical logic
* Operator (mathematics), mapping that acts on elements of a space to produce elements of another sp ...
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