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    COMPUTER OPERATION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to performplay

    Synonyms:

    computer operation; machine operation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    Hypernyms ("computer operation" is a kind of...):

    operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer operation"):

    floating-point operation; flop (an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers)

    retrieval ((computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory)

    storage ((computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk)

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