English Dictionary

operation

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɒp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

The method by which a device performs its function. / The method or practice by which actions are done. / The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

日本語の意味

装置や機器がその機能を実行する方法・仕組み / 行動や業務、プロセスが実施される方法・実践 / 操作や運用、または物理的、機械的、道徳的な力の行使を伴う行為

The engineer adjusted the machine's operation to increase efficiency.

エンジニアは機械の作動方法を調整して効率を高めた。

意味（1）

The method by which a device performs its function.

It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.

意味（2）

The method or practice by which actions are done.

意味（3）

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operations on the stomach and guts.

意味（4）

A planned undertaking.

The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.

意味（5）

A business or organization.

We run our operation from a storefront.

意味（6）

(medicine) A surgical procedure.

She had an operation to remove her appendix.

意味（7）

(computing, logic, mathematics) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);

The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.

意味（8）

(mathematics, more formally) a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.

意味（9）

(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)

意味（10）

(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

The bards […] had great operation on the vulgar.

operations （ plural ）