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OPERATIONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records
Synonyms:
operations; trading operations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("operations" is a kind of...):
dealing; dealings; transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
You, whom I have seen with no tremble of hand or heart, do operations of life and death that make the rest shudder.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The unnatural pair would need to bind with an affinity similar to that of natural pairs in order to separate and rejoin during DNA operations.
(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)
And Mrs. Fairfax swallowed her breakfast and hastened away to commence operations.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Worthless, damaged, defective, superfluous or effluent material from industrial operations.
(Industrial Waste, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A person who manages a computer, a network or specific software components and has rights to perform all operations.
(Administrator (Computer), NCI Thesaurus)
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
InSight's surface-operations phase began a minute after touchdown.
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
A binary number in which a bit is set to either on or off to store information for bitwise operations.
(Bitmask, NCI Thesaurus)
The logical, mathematical, and/or other operations specifying derivation.
(Derivation Rule, NCI Thesaurus)
