Operation vs. Procedure
Operationnoun
The method by which a device performs its function.
Operationnoun
The method or practice by which actions are done.
Operationnoun
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operationnoun
A planned undertaking.
Operationnoun
A business or organization.
Operationnoun
(medicine) A surgical procedure.
Operationnoun
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
Operationnoun
(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
Operationnoun
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
Operationnoun
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Operationnoun
The method of working; mode of action.
Operationnoun
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
Operationnoun
Effect produced; influence.
Operationnoun
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities or mathematical objects, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
Operationnoun
Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Operationnoun
a business especially one run on a large scale;
Operationnoun
a planned activity involving many people performing various actions;
Operationnoun
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;
Operationnoun
the state of being in effect or being operative;
Operationnoun
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;
Operationnoun
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);
Operationnoun
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);
Operationnoun
process or manner of functioning or operating;
Operationnoun
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods;
Operationnoun
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
Operationnoun
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);
Procedurenoun
A particular method for performing a task.
Procedurenoun
A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
Procedurenoun
(uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
Procedurenoun
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
Procedurenoun
(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
Procedurenoun
(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
Procedurenoun
(medicine) A surgical operation.
Procedurenoun
The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
Procedurenoun
A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
Procedurenoun
That which results; issue; product.
Procedurenoun
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result;
Procedurenoun
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;
Procedurenoun
a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
Procedurenoun
a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
Procedurenoun
an established or official way of doing something
Procedurenoun
a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner
Procedurenoun
a surgical operation
Procedurenoun
another term for subroutine
