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How to pronounce “operation”
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Pronunciation guide for operation
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of operation with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- From Hopelessness to Possibility
We're here to talk about Operation Smile.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce operation
From Hopelessness to Possibility

We're here to talk about Operation Smile.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “operation”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (obsolete, countable) Effect produced; influence.
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