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Application and Operation Definitions

Application

The act of applying.

Operation

The act or process of operating or functioning.

Application

Something applied, such as a cosmetic or curative agent.

Operation

The state of being operative or functional
A factory in operation.

Application

The act of putting something to a special use or purpose
An application of a new method.

Operation

A process or series of acts involved in a particular form of work
The operation of building a house.
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Application

A specific use to which something is put
The application of science to industry.

Operation

An instance or method of efficient, productive activity
That restaurant is quite an operation.

Application

The capacity of being usable; relevance
Geometry has practical application in aviation and navigation.

Operation

An unethical or illegal business
A fencing operation for stolen goods.

Application

Close attention; diligence
Shows application to her work.

Operation

(Medicine) A surgical procedure for remedying an injury, ailment, defect, or dysfunction.
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Application

A request, as for assistance, employment, or admission to a school.

Operation

(Mathematics) A process or action, such as addition, substitution, transposition, or differentiation, performed in a specified sequence and in accordance with specific rules.

Application

The form or document on which such a request is made.

Operation

A logical operation.

Application

(Computers) A computer program designed for a specific task or use.

Operation

(Computers) An action resulting from a single instruction.
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Application

Of or being a computer program designed for a specific task or use
Applications software for a missile guidance system.

Operation

A military or naval action, campaign, or mission.

Application

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense
The application of this cream should reduce the swelling.

Operation

Operations The headquarters or center from which a military action, flights into and out of an airfield, or other activities are controlled.

Application

The substance applied.

Operation

Operations The division of an organization that carries out the major planning and operating functions.

Application

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.

Operation

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.

Application

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
I make the remark, and leave you to make the application.
The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.

Operation

The method or practice by which actions are done.

Application

(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.

Operation

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

Application

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications.

Operation

A planned undertaking.
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.

Application

A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.

Operation

A business or organization.
We run our operation from a storefront.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.

Application

The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.

Operation

(medicine) A surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.

Application

Diligence; close thought or attention.

Operation

A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.

Application

A kind of needlework; appliqué.

Operation

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

Application

(obsolete) Compliance.

Operation

(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.

Application

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Operation

The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.

Application

The thing applied.
He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.

Operation

The method of working; mode of action.

Application

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.

Operation

That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.

Application

The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence; as, I make the remark, and leave you to make the application; the application of a theory.

Operation

Effect produced; influence.
The bards . . . had great operation on the vulgar.

Application

That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the "moral" of a fable.

Operation

Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities or mathematical objects, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.

Application

The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.

Operation

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.

Application

The act of fixing the mind or closely applying one's self; assiduous effort; close attention; as, to injure the health by application to study.
Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress might have been greater.

Operation

A business especially one run on a large scale;
A large-scale farming operation
A multinational operation
They paid taxes on every stage of the operation
They had to consolidate their operations

Application

The act of making request of soliciting; as, an application for an office; he made application to a court of chancery.

Operation

A planned activity involving many people performing various actions;
They organized a rescue operation
The biggest police operation in French history
Running a restaurant is quite an operation
Consolidate the companies various operations

Application

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

Operation

A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;
The operations in building a house
Certain machine tool operations

Application

A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school;
December 31 is the deadline for applications

Operation

The state of being in effect or being operative;
That rule is no longer in operation

Application

The act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose;
He advocated the application of statistics to the problem
A novel application of electronics to medical diagnosis

Operation

A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;
They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available
He died while undergoing surgery

Application

A program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task;
He has tried several different word processing applications

Operation

Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);
It was a joint operation of the navy and air force

Application

The work of applying something;
The doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine
A complete bleach requires several applications
The surface was ready for a coating of paint

Operation

(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);
It can perform millions of operations per second

Application

Liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin;
A lotion for dry skin

Operation

Process or manner of functioning or operating;
The power of its engine determine its operation
The plane's operation in high winds
They compared the cooking performance of each oven
The jet's performance conformed to high standards

Application

A diligent effort;
It is a job requiring serious application

Operation

(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods;
The problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation
They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic

Operation

(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
The process of thinking
The cognitive operation of remembering

Operation

The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);
Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride

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