the act of combining things to form a new whole | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods |
a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work |
an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | a business especially one run on a large scale |
a coordinated sequence of chess moves | the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) |
| (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents |
| (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) |
| process or manner of functioning or operating |
| the state of being in effect or being operative |