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operation
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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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);
(mathematics, more formally) a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value. - (military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
- (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)
- operation (surgical procedure)
Middle French
Noun
operation f (plural operations)
- function; role
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin oper?ti?
Pronunciation
Noun
operation c
- (medicine) surgery
Declension
References
- operation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- operation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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mediation
English
Etymology
From Late Latin medi?ti? (perhaps via Middle French mediation/mediacion) from medi?r? (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /midi?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
mediation (countable and uncountable, plural mediations)
- Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
- The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
Derived terms
- cybermediation
- hypermediation
- mediational
- transmediation
Related terms
- mediate
- mediator
- mid
Translations
See also
- arbitration
Further reading
- "mediation" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 204.
Danish
Noun
mediation c (singular definite mediationen, plural indefinite mediationer)
- mediation
Declension
Further reading
- “mediation” in Den Danske Ordbog
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