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[operation] OPERATION or OPERATIONS may refer to: [TOC right]
** Arts, entertainment and media
- _Operation_ (game) , a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
- Operation (music) , a term used in musical set theory
- _Operations_ (magazine) , Multi-Man Publishing's house organ for articles and discussion about its wargaming products
- _The Operation_ (film) , a 1973 British television film
- _The Operation_ (1990), a crime, drama, TV movie starring Joe Penny , Lisa Hartman, and Jason Beghe
- The Operation M.D. , formerly The Operation, a Canadian garage rock band
- "Operation", a song by Relient K from _The Creepy EP_ , 2001
*** Television
**** Episodes
- "The Operation", _Sky Dancers_ episode 27 (1996)
- "The Operation", _The Golden Girls_ season 1, episode 18 (1986)
- "The Operation", _You're Only Young Twice_ (1997) series 2, episode 8 (1978)
**** Shows
- _The Operation_ (1992–1998), a reality television series from TLC
** Business
- Manufacturing operations , operation of a facility
- Operations management , an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production
** Military and law enforcement
- Military operation , a military action (usually in a military campaign) using deployed forces
- Black operation , or "Black op", an operation that may be outside of standard military protocol or against the law
- Clandestine operation , an intelligence or military operation carried out so that the operation goes unnoticed
- Combined operations , operations by forces of two or more allied nations
- Covert operation , an operation which conceals the identity of the sponsor
- Psychological operations , an operation consisting of psychological manipulations, tactics, and warfare
- Special operations , military operations that are unconventional
- Operations (J3) , third level of Nation Level Command Structure
- Operations (military staff) , staff involved in planning operations
- Sting operation , an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime, by means of deception
** Science and technology
- Inference , a step in reasoning
- Information technology operations
- Operation (mathematics) , a calculation from zero or more input values (called operands) to an output value
- Arity , number of arguments or operands that the function takes
- Binary operation , calculation that combines two elements of the set to produce another element of the set
- Graph operations , produce new graphs from initial ones
- Modulo operation , operation finds the remainder after division of one number by another
- Operations research , in British usage, application of advanced analytical methods to make better decisions
- Unary operation , an operation with only one operand
- Rail transport operations , the control of a rail system
- Scientific operation
- Surgical operation , or surgery, in medicine
- Unit operation , a basic step in a chemical engineering process
** Other uses
- Anomalous operation , in parapsychology, a term describing a broad category of purported paranormal effects
- Operation, a word which represents a grammatical relation (i.e., function) or instruction, rather than a term or name
- Operation of law , a legal term that indicates that a right or liability has been created for a party
** See also
- List of military operations
- OP (disambiguation)
- Operations support system , used in the telecommunications industry
- Operations room , the tactical center providing processed information for command and control of an area of operations
- Operative (disambiguation)
- Operator (disambiguation)
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