a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
process or manner of functioning or operating
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)