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MACHINE OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform
Synonyms:
computer operation; machine operation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("machine operation" is a kind of...):
operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "machine operation"):
floating-point operation; flop (an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers)
retrieval ((computer science) the operation of accessing information from the computer's memory)
storage ((computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk)
