operations

Missions or surgeries

Operations are organized activities directed toward a purpose.

In business, operations means the day-to-day functioning that keeps an enterprise running: She oversees operations for the entire West Coast region.

Military operations are planned campaigns or missions.

Medical operations are surgical procedures.

The word often implies coordinated, systematic effort: rescue operations, mining operations, covert operations.

surgical

incision

Controlled cut into tissue

anesthesia · transplant · bypass · amputation · biopsy · resection · appendectomy · laparoscopy · suturing · dissection

mathematical

calculation

Mathematical problem-solving process

multiplication · division · algorithm · equation · formula · integration · differentiation · arithmetic · operand · binary

business

management

Organizing and directing resources

supply-chain · procurement · distribution · inventory · scheduling · coordination · administration · oversight · day-to-day · franchise

military

mission

Purpose-driven task

covert · reconnaissance · maneuver · command · sortie · extraction · theater · briefing · intelligence · offensive

computing

execution

Completing a planned task

transaction · query · read · write · input · output · concurrent · asynchronous · synchronous · kernel

Categories
Opposites
activity vs. inactivity

operationsshutdown

Cessation of operations

inactivity · cessation · dormancy · standstill · closure

practical action vs. theoretical planning

operationstheory

Explanatory set of principles

planning · strategy · conception · design · ideation

coordinated action vs. isolated observation

operationsobservation

Attentive watching or remark

passivity · spectatorship · watching · monitoring · witnessing

Phrases
Family

operation, cooperation, operational, operationally, noncooperation, nonoperational, operations manager, interoperation

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