a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement |
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level |
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | weather cold enough to cause freezing |
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid |
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | |
a business especially one run on a large scale | |
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 | |