Operation vs. Production — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Operation and Production
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Operation
The act or process of operating or functioning.
Production
The act or process of producing
Timber used for the production of lumber and paper.
Operation
The state of being operative or functional
A factory in operation.
Production
The fact or process of being produced
A movie going into production.
Operation
A process or series of acts involved in a particular form of work
The operation of building a house.
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Production
The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services.
Operation
An instance or method of efficient, productive activity
That restaurant is quite an operation.
Production
The total output, as of a commodity
Increased production at the plant.
Operation
An unethical or illegal business
A fencing operation for stolen goods.
Production
Something produced; a product
"Of all the productions of land, milk is perhaps the most perishable" (Adam Smith).
Operation
(Medicine) A surgical procedure for remedying an injury, ailment, defect, or dysfunction.
Production
A work of art or literature.
Operation
(Mathematics) A process or action, such as addition, substitution, transposition, or differentiation, performed in a specified sequence and in accordance with specific rules.
Production
A work produced for the stage, screen, television, or radio.
Operation
A logical operation.
Production
A staging or presentation of a theatrical work
A new Broadway production of a musical.
Operation
(Computers) An action resulting from a single instruction.
Production
A situation or display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
Made a production out of the birthday party.
Operation
A military or naval action, campaign, or mission.
Production
The act of producing, making or creating something.
The widget making machine is being used for production now.
Operation
Operations The headquarters or center from which a military action, flights into and out of an airfield, or other activities are controlled.
Production
The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
Operation
Operations The division of an organization that carries out the major planning and operating functions.
Production
The act of being produced.
The widgets are coming out of production now.
Operation
The method by which a device performs its function.
It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation.
Production
The total amount produced.
They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
Operation
The method or practice by which actions are done.
Production
The presentation of a theatrical work.
We went to a production of Hamlet.
Operation
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
Production
An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
He made a simple meal into a huge production.
Operation
A planned undertaking.
The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
The Katrina relief operation was considered botched.
Production
That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
This is the final production model.
Operation
A business or organization.
We run our operation from a storefront.
They run a multinational produce-supply operation.
Production
The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Operation
(medicine) A surgical procedure.
She had an operation to remove her appendix.
Production
(zoology) An extension or protrusion.
Operation
A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
The number of operands associated with an operation is called its arity; an operation of arity 2 is called a binary operation.
Production
(computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
Each production is implemented with a function.
Operation
(military) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
Production
The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
Operation
(obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
Production
Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
Operation
The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation, can never attain to perfection.
Production
(linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
Operation
The method of working; mode of action.
Production
The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.
Operation
That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
Production
That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.
Operation
Effect produced; influence.
The bards . . . had great operation on the vulgar.
Production
The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Operation
Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities or mathematical objects, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
Production
(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale;
He introduced more efficient methods of production
Operation
Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.
Production
A presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television;
Have you seen the new production of Hamlet?
Operation
A business especially one run on a large scale;
A large-scale farming operation
A multinational operation
They paid taxes on every stage of the operation
They had to consolidate their operations
Production
The act or process of producing something;
Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous
The production of white blood cells
Operation
A planned activity involving many people performing various actions;
They organized a rescue operation
The biggest police operation in French history
Running a restaurant is quite an operation
Consolidate the companies various operations
Production
An artifact that has been created by someone or some process;
They improve their product every year
They export most of their agricultural production
Operation
A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work;
The operations in building a house
Certain machine tool operations
Production
(law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law;
The appellate court demanded the production of all documents
Operation
The state of being in effect or being operative;
That rule is no longer in operation
Production
The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);
Production was up in the second quarter
Operation
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body;
They will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available
He died while undergoing surgery
Production
A display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated;
She tends to make a big production out of nothing
Operation
Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign);
It was a joint operation of the navy and air force
Production
The creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
Operation
(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction);
It can perform millions of operations per second
Operation
Process or manner of functioning or operating;
The power of its engine determine its operation
The plane's operation in high winds
They compared the cooking performance of each oven
The jet's performance conformed to high standards
Operation
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods;
The problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation
They were learning the basic operations of arithmetic
Operation
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents;
The process of thinking
The cognitive operation of remembering
Operation
The activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.);
Her smooth operation of the vehicle gave us a surprisingly comfortable ride
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