operation

About 78.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

noun 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.
noun The method or practice by which actions are done.
noun The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
noun A planned undertaking.
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
noun A business or organization.
We run our operation from a storefront.
noun A surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
noun A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.
noun A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.