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English

Etymology

From Middle French operation, from Old French operacion, from Latin oper?ti?, from the verb operor (“I work”), from opus, operis (“work”). Equivalent to operate +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p???e???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: op?e?ra?tion

Noun

operation (countable and uncountable, plural operations)

1. 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.

2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

   • the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.

4. A planned undertaking.

   The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.

   The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

5. A business or organization.

   We run our operation from a storefront.

   They run a multinational produce-supply operation.

6. (medicine) A surgical procedure.

   She had an operation to remove her appendix.
7. (computing, logic, mathematics) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
   (mathematics, more formally) a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.

8. (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
9. (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

   • The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): function, transformation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (oper?shon)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: opairèisean

Translations

References

• operation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• operation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• operation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• petronoia

Interlingua

Noun

operation (plural operationes)

1. operation (surgical procedure)

Middle French

Noun

operation f (plural operations)

1. function; role

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin oper?ti?

Pronunciation

Noun

operation c

1. (medicine) surgery

Declension

References

• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• operation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

English

Alternative forms

• comptroll (archaic)
• controll, controul (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrarotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contra (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?t???l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?t(?)?o?l/
• Hyphenation: con?trol
• Homophone: Ctrl

Verb

control (third-person singular simple present controls, present participle controlling, simple past and past participle controlled)

1. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

   Synonyms: besteer, bewield, manage, puppeteer, rule
2. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
3. (transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account
4. (transitive, obsolete) to call to account, to take to task, to challenge
5. (transitive) to hold in check, to curb, to restrain

Synonyms

• ctrl.

Antonyms

• defy, rebel, resist (not to be controlled)
• obey, submit (to be controlled)

Derived terms

See also

• regulate

Translations

Noun

control (countable and uncountable, plural controls)

1. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.

2. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
3. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

   • She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
4. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
5. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
6. A control group or control experiment.
7. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

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8. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.

   Synonym: widget

9. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
10. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
11. (spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• control in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• control in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• control on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Control in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Etymology

From French contrôle, attested from 1917.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon?t??l/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun?t??l/

Noun

control m (plural controls)

1. control
2. check, inspection
3. influence, authority

Derived terms

• controlar

References

Further reading

• “control” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “control” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “control” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

From English control. The established pronunciation reflects a widespread mispronunciation of the English word. Doublet of controle and controlo.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kõ.t?ow/

Noun

control m (plural controls)

1. the control key on a computer keyboard

Derived terms

• control C control V

Romanian

Etymology

From French contrôle.

Noun

control n (plural controale)

1. control

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French contrôle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon?t?ol/, [kõn??t??ol]
• Hyphenation: con?trol

Noun

control m (plural controles)

1. control, or running of a business
2. control of a machine

   Synonyms: control remoto, mando, mando a distancia, telemando

3. control or emotional restraint, self-control
4. (Latin America) remote control

   Synonyms: control remoto, mando, mando a distancia

5. (video games, Latin America) controller, gamepad, joypad

   Synonym: mando

6. (medicine) checkup

Derived terms

Related terms

• controlar

Further reading

• “control” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.