activity directed toward making or doing something | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body |
the occupation for which you are paid | (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods |
a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
a place where work is done | a planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it) | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work |
applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | a business especially one run on a large scale |
(physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force | 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 |