the act of constructing something | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods |
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work |
an interpretation of a text or action | a business especially one run on a large scale |
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | 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 |