Operation vs Department - What's the difference?
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The method by which a device performs its function.
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
* Dryden
A planned undertaking.
A business or organization.
(medicine) a surgical procedure.
(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
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
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A subdivision of an organization.
# One of the principal divisions of executive government
# One of the divisions of instructions
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:
(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(label) Act of departing; departure.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), Wotton
As nouns the difference between operation and department
is that operation is operation (method by which a device performs its function) while department is a part, portion, or subdivision.operation
English
(wikipedia operation)Noun
(en noun)- It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
- The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
- Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
- The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
- The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
- We run our operation from a storefront.
- They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
- She had an operation to remove her appendix.
- The bards had great operation on the vulgar.
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English
Noun
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- the Treasury Department'''''; ''the '''Department''' of Agriculture''; ''police '''department
- the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another