Operation

Operation or Operations may refer to:

Scientific operation
Surgery, or operation
- Operation (game), a battery-operated game of physical skill
An operation (mathematics) in mathematics:
In language, an operation is a word which represents a function (or instruction), rather than a term or name
In computer science:
- an operation is performed on the basis of an instruction
- Modulo operation
In military and intelligence:
- Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
- Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
- Combined operations, operations by forces of two or more allied nations
- Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
- Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
- Covert operation, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
- Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
- Black operation, an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
- Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Business operations
- Operations management
- Manufacturing operations
- Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
Operations support system used in the telecommunications industry
Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
Anomalous operation, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory

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