The difference between Operation and Surgery
When used as nouns, operation means the method by which a device performs its function, whereas surgery means a procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
check bellow for the other definitions of Operation and Surgery
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Operation as a noun:
The method by which a device performs its function.
Examples:
"It is dangerous to look at the beam of a [[laser]] while it is in operation."
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Operation as a noun:
The method or practice by which actions are done.
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Operation as a noun:
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
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Operation as a noun:
A planned undertaking.
Examples:
"The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets."
"The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched."
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Operation as a noun:
A business or organization.
Examples:
"We run our operation from a storefront."
"They run a multinational produce-supply operation."
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Operation as a noun (medicine):
A surgical procedure.
Examples:
"She had an operation to remove her appendix."
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Operation as a noun (computing, logic, mathematics):
a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
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Operation as a noun (military):
A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
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Operation as a noun (obsolete):
Effect produced; influence.
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Surgery as a noun (medicine):
A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
Examples:
"Many times surgery is necessary to prevent cancer from spreading."
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Surgery as a noun (medicine):
The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
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Surgery as a noun:
A room or department where surgery is performed.
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Surgery as a noun (British):
A doctor's office.
Examples:
"I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids."
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Surgery as a noun (British):
Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
Examples:
"Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday."
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Surgery as a noun (finance, bankruptcy, slang):
A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
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Surgery as a noun (topology):
The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.