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Integration vs Operation - What's the difference?

integration | operation |

As nouns the difference between integration and operation

is that integration is the act or process of making whole or entire while operation is the method by which a device performs its function.

integration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of making whole or entire.
  • (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to 'visible' (ethnic, immigrant...) minorities
  • (calculus) The operation of finding the of a function.
  • (biology) In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species' development.

    • Derived terms

    * integrationist * enterprise application integration * horizontal integration * indefinite integration * integral calculus * integration clause * racial integration * vertical integration * forward integration * backward integration

    Related terms

    * integer * integrable * integral * integrand * integrator

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    operation

    English

    (wikipedia operation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The method by which a device performs its function.
    • It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
  • The method or practice by which actions are done.
  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • * John Locke
    • The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
  • * Dryden
    • Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
  • A planned undertaking.
    • The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
    The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
  • A business or organization.
    • We run our operation from a storefront.
    They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
  • (medicine) a surgical procedure.
    • She had an operation to remove her appendix.
  • (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
  • (military) a military campaign (e.g. )
  • (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
  • * Fuller
    • The bards had great operation on the vulgar.

    Synonyms

    * (mathematics) * (mathematics)

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