freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
the act of making less strict | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods |
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 | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
an occurrence of control or strength weakening | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work |
(physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance | a business especially one run on a large scale |
(physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers | 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 |