Operacio

Operacio is a noun used in several Romance languages to denote an action or set of actions performed to achieve a result. It appears in contexts ranging from mathematics and computing to medicine and military planning. In everyday language, it commonly refers to a planned task or procedure, such as a surgical operation, a military operation, or an arithmetic operation. The unaccented form operacio is sometimes found where diacritics are omitted, but the accented forms—operació, operación, operație—are standard in their respective languages.

Etymology and scope: The term derives from Latin operatio, meaning a working or exertion, from opus, meaning work. The core sense is performing work to obtain an outcome. Across languages, operacio and its variants share this root and apply to tasks that are designed, executed, and observed as part of a defined objective.

Uses and senses:

- Mathematics and logic: a defined calculation or function, such as an addition operation.

- Medicine: a surgical procedure.

- Military and security: a planned campaign or mission.

- Computing and technology: a processor instruction or software function.

- Industry and project management: a phase or sequence of tasks within a process.