Operation Explained
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
Military and law enforcement
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, 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
See also