a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) |
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | the act of making less strict |
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount |
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | an occurrence of control or strength weakening |
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry |
a business especially one run on a large scale | (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance |
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) | (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers |
(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 | |