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- Surgery, a medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment.
- An operation or operator in mathematics. See unary operation, binary operation, arity.
- In language, an operation is a word which represents a function (or instruction) rather than a term, or a name.
- In computer science, an operation is called an instruction.
- Military operation, a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces.
- Covert operation, a military or political action that is both clandestine and denied by the government undertaking the action.
- Sting operation, an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime by means of deception.
- Business operations, manufacturing operations, operations management.
- Operation of law, a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a part.
- Anomalous operation, in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects.
- Musical operations such as transposition, inversion, multiplication, permutation, counterpoint.
- Operation (game), a battery-operated game of physical skill.
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