Operation

(noun.) the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.); 'her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride'.

(noun.) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; 'they organized a rescue operation'; 'the biggest police operation in French history'; 'running a restaurant is quite an operation'; 'consolidate the companies various operations'.

(noun.) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; 'the operations in building a house'; 'certain machine tool operations'.

(noun.) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; 'they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available'; 'he died while undergoing surgery'.

(noun.) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); 'it was a joint operation of the navy and air force'.

(noun.) a business especially one run on a large scale; 'a large-scale farming operation'; 'a multinational operation'; 'they paid taxes on every stage of the operation'; 'they had to consolidate their operations'.

(noun.) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); 'it can perform millions of operations per second'.

(noun.) process or manner of functioning or operating; 'the power of its engine determines its operation'; 'the plane's operation in high winds'; 'they compared the cooking performance of each oven'; 'the jet's performance conformed to high standards'.

(noun.) the state of being in effect or being operative; 'that rule is no longer in operation'.

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• The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• When the cranes or other apparatus to be worked thereby are in operation, water is passed from the cylinder through a small pipe which actuates the crane through hydraulic pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The instrument may be made before the laws which govern its operation are discovered. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Byllesby and the late Luther Stieringer, was completed and in operation within six weeks after the placing of the order. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• But immediately afterwards the armature springs backward and makes contact at _P_ and the entire operation is repeated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Its operation in both these respects is a good deal superior to that of the capital of the retailer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is proposed to work as a unit plant for successful operation at least six sets of molds, to keep the men busy and the machinery going. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• For that is a contradiction in terms, and suppose that the senses continue to operate, even after they have ceased all manner of operation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The diagram, Fig. 12,[1] illustrates the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The operation is novel, not the materials out of which it is constructed. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Then add gradually about nine ounces of the orange-flower water, stirring constantly, continuing this operation until a fine, creamy emulsion is the result. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• During the progress of the ore-milling work at Edison, it became desirable to carry on a certain operation by some special machinery. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the second method both operations are performed on a single machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This we have now been doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we erected a hydraulic press. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While at Cairo I had watched with very great interest the operations of the Army of the Potomac, looking upon that as the main field of the war. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The report from Sheridan embraced his operations up to his passing the outer defences of Richmond. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Their surgeons understood the use of an?sthetics, and performed some of the most difficult operations known. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Our operations may be summed up in a few words. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We have nothing but one single dye to contemplate, in order to comprehend one of the most curious operations of the understanding. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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