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, 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 ma ...
, 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, 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
** Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
* Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure
* Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
* Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Science and technology
* Inference, a step in reasoning
* Information technology operations
* Operation (mathematics), a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
** Arity, number of arguments or operands that the function takes
** Binary operation, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
** Graph operations, produce new graphs from initial ones
** Modulo operation, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
** Operations research, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
** Unary operation, an operation with only one operand
* Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
* Scientific operation
* Surgical operation or surgery, in medicine
* Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Other uses
* Anomalous operation, 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
* Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
See also
* List of military operations
* OP (disambiguation)
* Operations support system, used in the telecommunications industry
* Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
* Operative (disambiguation)
* Operator (disambiguation)
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