Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
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''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
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Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
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''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products
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''The Operation'' (film), a 1973 British television film
* ''The Operation'' (1990), a crime, drama, TV movie starring
Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe
* ''The Operation'' (1992–1998), a reality television series from
TLC
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The Operation M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
* "Operation", a song by Relient K from ''
The Creepy EP
''The Creepy EP'' is the second EP by American rock band Relient K. It contains two songs from their later full-length release, '' The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek'', and four exclusive tracks. This EP, along with Relient K's other early EPs, i ...
'', 2001
Business
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Business operations
Business operations is the ''harvesting'' of value from assets owned by a business. Assets can be either ''physical'' or '' intangible''. An example of value derived from a physical asset, like a building, is rent. An example of value derived fro ...
, the harvesting of value from assets owned by a business
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Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility
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Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production
Military and law enforcement
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Military operation
A military operation is the coordinated military actions of a state, or a non-state actor, in response to a developing situation. These actions are designed as a military plan to resolve the situation in the state or actor's favor. Operations ...
, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
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Black operation, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
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Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
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Combined operations, operations by forces of two or more allied nations
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Covert operation, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
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Psychological operations, an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare
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Special operations, military operations that are unconventional
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Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure
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Operations (military staff), staff involved in planning operations
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Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
Science and technology
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Inference, a step in reasoning
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Information technology operations
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Operation (mathematics)
In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes zero or more input values (also called "'' operands''" or "arguments") to a well-defined output value. The number of operands is the arity of the operation.
The most commonly studied opera ...
, a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
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Arity, number of arguments or operands that the function takes
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Binary operation, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
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Graph operations, produce new graphs from initial ones
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Modulo operation
In computing, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another (called the '' modulus'' of the operation).
Given two positive numbers and , modulo (often abbreviated as ) is ...
, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
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Operations research
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve decis ...
, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
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Unary operation, an operation with only one operand
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Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system
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Scientific operation
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific me ...
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Surgical operation or surgery, in medicine
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Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process
Other uses
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Anomalous operation
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near- ...
, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
* Operation, a word which represents a
grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
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Operation of law
The phrase "by operation of law" is a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party, irrespective of the intent of that party, because it is dictated by existing legal principles. For example, if a person dies wi ...
, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
See also
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List of military operations
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OP (disambiguation)
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Operations support system, used in the telecommunications industry
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Operations room, the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
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Operative (disambiguation)
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Operator (disambiguation)
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