Definition of operation

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Operation (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral..

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Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)..
Energy :: Energy (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations..
Pharyngotomy :: Pharyngotomy (n.) The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage..
Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..
Perineorrhaphy :: Perineorrhaphy (n.) The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
Liquation :: Liquation (n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid..
Improperation :: Improperation (n.) The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.
Burn :: Burn (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn..
Napier''s Rods :: Napier's rods () A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division..
Omphalotomy :: Omphalotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the navel-string.
Tenotome :: Tenotome (n.) A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
Combinedly :: Combinedly (adv. In combination or cooperation) ; jointly.
Gastrostomy :: Gastrostomy (n.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food..
Judgment :: "Judgment (v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment..
Inoperation :: Inoperation (n.) Agency; influence; production of effects.
Gastroraphy :: Gastroraphy (n.) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
Surgery :: Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment..
Theosophy :: Theosophy (n.) Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the
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