The difference between Operation and Transformation

When used as nouns, operation means the method by which a device performs its function, whereas transformation means the act of transforming or the state of being transformed.


check bellow for the other definitions of Operation and Transformation

  1. 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."

  2. Operation as a noun:

    The method or practice by which actions are done.

  3. Operation as a noun:

    The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

  4. 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."

  5. Operation as a noun:

    A business or organization.

    Examples:

    "We run our operation from a storefront."

    "They run a multinational produce-supply operation."

  6. Operation as a noun (medicine):

    A surgical procedure.

    Examples:

    "She had an operation to remove her appendix."

  7. Operation as a noun (computing, logic, mathematics):

    a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).

  8. Operation as a noun (military):

    A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)

  9. Operation as a noun (obsolete):

    Effect produced; influence.

  1. Transformation as a noun:

    The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.

  2. Transformation as a noun:

    A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.

  3. Transformation as a noun (mathematics):

    The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.

  4. Transformation as a noun (linguistics):

    A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.

  5. Transformation as a noun (genetics):

    The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.

  6. Transformation as a noun (politics, South Africa):

    Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.

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