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'Operation' may refer to:

★ Scientific Operation.

★ Surgery operation.

★ 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.

★ Operations Support Systems used in the telecommunications industry

★ 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.