a special assignment that is given to a person or group | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
the act of committing a crime | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods |
the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work |
a special group delegated to consider some matter | a business especially one run on a large scale |
a group of representatives or delegates | the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) |
a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents |
the state of being in good working order and ready for operation | (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 |