Definition of operation

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Operation (n.) The method of working; mode of action.

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Graft :: Graft (n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
Intrafusion :: Intrafusion (n.) The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood..
Inoperation :: Inoperation (n.) Agency; influence; production of effects.
Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition..
Campaign :: Campaign (n.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.
Attraction :: Attraction (n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
Battering Train :: Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations.
Mastery :: Mastery (n.) A masterly operation; a feat.
Shearing :: Shearing (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth..
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..
Anaplasty :: Anaplasty (n.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.
Worm :: Worm (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness..
Lithotomy :: Lithotomy (n.) The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder..
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..
Surgeon :: Surgeon (n.) One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment..
Blow :: Blow (n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Together :: Together (prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together..
Aphakia :: Aphakia (n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses..
Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..
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