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operation

英/ˌɒpəɹˈeɪʃən/
美/ˌɑpɝˈeɪʃən/
01n.

操作, 动作, 手术, 运算, 作用, 业务

the state of being in effect or being operative; a business especially one run on a large scale; a planned activity involving many people performing various actions; (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)