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.

Noun

(en noun)

That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.

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The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.

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The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Then of their session ended they bid cry / With trumpet's regal sound the great result .

(label) A flying back; resilience.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Sound is produced between the string and the air by the return or the result of the string.

(label) The final score in a game.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

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(label) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.