Operation or Operations may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products * ''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 M.D., formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band * "Operation", a song by Relient K from '' The Creepy EP'', 2001

Television

Episodes

* "The Operation", ''Sky Dancers'' episode 27 (1996) * "The Operation", ''The Golden Girls'' season 1, episode 18 (1986) * "The Operation", ''You're Only Young Twice'' (1997) series 2, episode 8 (1978)

Shows

* ''The Operation'' (1992–1998), a reality television series from TLC

Business

* Manufacturing operations, operation of a facility * Operations management, an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production

Military and law enforcement

* Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces ** Black operation, or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law ** Clandestine operation, an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed ** Combined operations, operations by forces of two or more allied nations ** Covert operation, an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor ** Psychological operations, an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare ** Special operations, military operations that are unconventional * Operations (J3), third level of Nation Level Command Structure *

Operations (military staff) Military operations is a concept and application of military science that involves planning the operations for the projected maneuvering forces' provisions, services, training, and administrative functions—to allow them to commence, insert, ...

, staff involved in planning operations * Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception

Science and technology

* Inference, a step in reasoning * Information technology operations * Operation (mathematics), a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value ** Arity, number of arguments or operands that the function takes ** Binary operation, calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set ** Graph operations, produce new graphs from initial ones ** Modulo operation, operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another **

Operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and ...

, in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions ** Unary operation, an operation with only one operand * Rail transport operations, the control of a rail system * Scientific operation * Surgical operation, or surgery, in medicine * Unit operation, a basic step in a chemical engineering process

Other uses

* Anomalous operation, 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 * Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party