amerikai:
brit:
1. The method by which a device performs its function.
2. The method or practice by which actions are done.
3. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
4. A planned undertaking.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
5. A business or organization.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
6. A surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
7. A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
8. A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
9. Effect produced; influence.