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operationally

operationally

7 5.6
In the way something works or is used
  • adverb
  • /ˌɑːpəˈreɪʃənəli/
translation icon : operacionalmente
  • Indigenous Afghan forces will take at least five years to become operationally effective.
  • operationally defined
  • operationally defined construct
  • operationally defined behavior

Now if I were to say I love you, what does that mean operationally?

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Examples

  • PARI is off to a great start but is still in its formative stages, both operationally and financially.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The classification was developed so that all categories are operationally defined and mutually exclusive.

    Academic text (2012)
  • So anything significant operationally happened in Italy?

  • All our men have been operationally trained for this type of mission.

  • Well, first of all, I think being operationally focused is something that defines your business.

  • In order to put all tests onto one framework, we operationally organized the data.

    Academic text (2013)
  • We sought to make the system easy to operate and operationally safe in a clinical environment.

    Academic text (1996)
  • For the purpose of the current study, it is important to operationally define "challenging behaviors."

    Academic text (2002)
  • Environmental knowledge was operationally defined as a student's score on a subscale of 7 items.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The engineers designed the equipment to be operationally efficient and easy to use.

Synonyms

functionally
vsoperationally
16 4.1

In a way that shows how something works

focuses on how something works or is actually used

How Strategic

strategically
60 5.1
operationally
7 5.6
tactically
15 6.8

Surface Forms

operationally positive

Morphology

operationally = operational (transparent) = operation + al + ly

Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' added to the adjective 'operational', producing a manner adverb.

Etymology

The word operationally comes from operate and operation, which come from an old root meaning 'work' or 'do'. So operationally means 'in terms of how something works or is used'.