operation
- noun
- /ˌɑpəˈreɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Further, religion affects individual personality characteristics through the operation of social norms adopted because of religious teachings.
- mental operation
- cognitive operation
- formal operations
The action of the nothing is thereby also prior to the logical intellectual operation of negation.
- The action of the nothing is thereby also prior to the logical intellectual operation of negation.
- That would call for the operation of my mind, which you don't have, only I have that.
- But it would be almost impossible to acquire the information unless we got enough insight into the operation of the brain.
- It's the different fields and approaches with which you start to study the mind actually take you away from the natural operation of the mind.
Examples
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Subsequent research should focus more directly on the cognitive operations of perfectionists when confronted with negative experiences.
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It's the different fields and approaches with which you start to study the mind actually take you away from the natural operation of the mind.
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The question calls for the operation of the officer's mind.
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The self can prevent or compel its own actions due to the operation of what?
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We are all, we all need to be self consciously humble about how little it is we know about the total operation of the system.
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After a protracted investigation, the detective's rational operations invariably solve the crime.
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The De La Paz and Graham strategy centered on two sets of mental operations encapsulated in the mnemonics STOP and DARE.
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Understanding, therefore, designates the operation in which the mind grasps the "mind" (Geist) of the other person.
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The psychologist studied the operation of memory and how it affects behavior.
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Understanding the operation of attention is crucial in cognitive psychology.
Synonyms
A series of actions to achieve a result over time
A brain activity like thinking, remembering, or deciding
A mental activity such as thinking, remembering, or learning
A mental process that changes information, like thinking or remembering
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
Secret work by police or agents who hide their identity to gather evidence
- Specialized
A secret activity by a government to gather information about an enemy or threat
A military mission to stop fighting and make an area calm between groups or countries
- Archaic
Medical treatment with surgery and hormones that helps a person live as a different gender
A US-led military attack in 1991 that quickly forced Iraq's army out of Kuwait
- Formal
A secret activity planned and done to stay hidden, often by spies or soldiers
- Specialized
A medical treatment where a doctor makes a cut to fix, remove, or replace a part of the body
- Specialized
A military action that tries to change what people think or feel
- Jargon
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
- Specialized
A military action that lands soldiers from ships onto a shore
- Specialized
A calculation that uses numbers with decimals often done by a computer
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A calculation with numbers like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing
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A calculation in math like adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing numbers
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An operation with two inputs that gives a true or false result
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A rule that combines two values into one result, like addition or AND
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A rule that uses true and false inputs to give a true or false result like AND, OR, NOT
A police action in which officers pretend to buy illegal drugs to arrest sellers
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A mental process that changes information, like thinking or remembering
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A military action done together by two or more allied countries using land, sea, and air forces
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An action that starts, changes, or stops a device working with data
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An action that runs without waiting for other tasks so the program keeps working
- Specialized
A task performed by equipment outside the main computer, for example a printer or external drive
- Specialized
A secret action to take someone to safety from a dangerous area
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A secret action to send data out of a computer or network to steal it
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An action that runs for a set number of regular time steps in machines or computers
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A rule that gives 1 when more than half the inputs are 1 and 0 otherwise
- NSFW
An attack where someone blows themselves up to kill or hurt others for a cause
A large American attack in World War I that helped push back German soldiers
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A math or programming action that takes only one input, like negation
- Specialized
A way of doing two or more tasks at the same time by sharing resources
- Specialized
An operation that sews the lower part of the womb closed during pregnancy to prevent early birth
- Specialized
Organized effort to recover data and restart computer systems after a computer attack or failure
- Formal
Actions that police or soldiers take to stop and control a violent crowd during a riot
- Offensive
An attack in which a person kills or injures others and also dies, usually using a bomb
- Specialized
An action done by equipment not connected to or controlled by the main computer
- Specialized
An activity by military or intelligence groups done openly, not secretly
- Specialized
Doing more than one task at the same time on computers or machines
- Specialized
Tasks happen one after another, each starting after the last finishes
- Specialized
An operation that follows a regular clock so events happen at expected times
- Specialized
A process that checks values against a set level and marks which values meet it
- Specialized
A surgical operation that puts a stitch around the cervix to stop it opening too early in pregnancy
- Specialized
A training activity where soldiers rehearse battle actions in realistic conditions without real fighting
- Formal
A planned military action with clear goals that is often secret
How Complex
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Operation comes from Latin operari, meaning 'to work', so a mental operation is simply the 'work' the mind does when it thinks, remembers, or solves a problem.