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What is the difference between procedure and operation?

procedure | operation |

Operation is a synonym of procedure.



In obsolete terms the difference between procedure and operation

is that procedure is that which results; issue; product while operation is effect produced; influence.

In medicine terms the difference between procedure and operation

is that procedure is a surgical operation while operation is a surgical procedure.

As nouns the difference between procedure and operation

is that procedure is a particular method for performing a task while operation is the method by which a device performs its function.

procedure

Noun

  • A particular method for performing a task.
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  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  • (label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
  • The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  • * (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
  • Gracious procedures .
  • (label) That which results; issue; product.
  • (Bacon)
  • (label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  • (label) A surgical operation.
  • Synonyms

    * (method) algorithm, method, process, routine * (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol * (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages) * (medicine) operation

    Anagrams

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    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)

    Derived terms

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