| Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary 1,777,947,953 visitors served. |
|
Dictionary/ thesaurus | Medical dictionary | Legal dictionary | Financial dictionary | Acronyms | Idioms | Encyclopedia | Wikipedia encyclopedia | ? |
operation |
Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Acronyms, Wikipedia, Hutchinson | 0.02 sec. |
|
operation 1. Surgery any manipulation of the body or one of its organs or parts to repair damage, arrest the progress of a disease, remove foreign matter, etc. 2. Maths a. any procedure, such as addition, multiplication, involution, or differentiation, in which one or more numbers or quantities are operated upon according to specific rules b. a function from a set onto itself operation [‚äp·ə′rā·shən] (computer science) A process or procedure that obtains a unique result from any permissible combination of operands. The sequence of actions resulting from the execution of one digital computer instruction. (industrial engineering) A job, usually performed in one location, and consisting of one or more work elements. (mathematics) An operation of a groupGon a setSis a mapping which associates to each ordered pair (g,s), wheregis inGandsis inS, another element inS, denotedgs, such that, for anyg,hinGandsinS, (gh)s=g(hs), andes=s, whereeis the identity element ofG. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
|
| ? Mentioned in | ? References in periodicals archive | |
|---|---|---|
99) is a 58 minute, full color documentary focused on the events of June 6, 1944 during the greatest military operation in the history of recorded human warfare. Participating in every military operation from Vietnam to Iraqi Freedom, StarLifter crews have also performed humanitarian relief flights to nearly 70 countries on six continents,'' said Ross Reynolds, Lockheed Martin's vice president of air mobility. One may find some of the basic tenets of the Distributed Operations concept in the thinking and writings of Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Berhard von Moltke (1800-1891), who wrote a number of works that suggested that military strategy had to be understood as a system of options since only the beginning of any military operation was predictable and therefore could be planned for. |
| Encyclopedia |
| Free Tools: |
For surfers:
Free toolbar & extensions |
Word of the Day |
Help
For webmasters: Free content | Linking | Lookup box | Double-click lookup | Partner with us |
|---|