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
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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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Transformation as a noun:
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
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Transformation as a noun:
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
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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.
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Transformation as a noun (linguistics):
A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
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Transformation as a noun (genetics):
The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
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Transformation as a noun (politics, South Africa):
Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.