Translation of operation in Spanish:

operation

funcionamiento, n.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciation /ˌɑpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n//ɒpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

1
(functioning)
funcionamiento masculine
to be in operation — estar en funcionamiento
- the new computer is not yet in operation — la nueva computadora todavía no ha entrado en funcionamiento
- a bus service will be in operation — habrá un servicio de autobuses
- That force is still in operation until you cancel it out.
- Monitoring over the coming months will evaluate the effectiveness in operation and safety.
- There will also be a rental scheme in operation for owners, a fact which may spark a good deal of Irish investor interest.
- The company has eight power plants in operation and seven under construction.
- Since 1997, some 40 hospitals and 550 schools are under construction or in operation.
- Tested on a track in Italy, they proved both smooth and very effective in operation and bring worthwhile safety advances.
- The provincial power shortage will be eased when the Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant is put into operation at the end of this year, he said.
- There are about 17 million energised tube wells in operation all over India running on subsidized power or diesel.
- Does that mean that the small hilly State has effectively put into operation a strong system of education?
- Speed restrictions are in operation at the moment to ensure that the tracks are safe whilst the checking is completed.
- By 1812 Jefferson had three threshing machines in operation, two powered by horses and one by a waterwheel.
- But the new powers will not be in operation in York until next month and will only apply to cars of no value that have been vandalised or torched.
- At their peak 20,000 trolleybuses, which run on wheels and are powered by overhead electric cables, were in operation in the UK.
- These mechanisms and powers are always in operation even when empirically the rate of profit is rising.
- In fact one has been in operation near Helston, Cornwall, for at least 12 months.
- Agents say the tunnel had been under construction for nearly a year and was recently put into operation.
- The task force will be in operation until May 20 when the newly-elected president takes office.
- Maybe I don't but there needs to be work done even if just to prove that the Placebo effect is in operation.
- In fact, there are two conflicting economies in operation in Britain.
- They will be used initially by Derbyshire police force, which hopes to have its system in operation by mid-2002.
2
(using, running)
(of machine) manejo masculine
(of system) uso masculine
designed for one-person operation — diseñado para ser manejado por una sola persona
3
- 3.1(activity, series of activities)
  operación feminine
  to mount a rescue operation — montar una operación de rescate
  when do you intend to begin operations? — ¿cuándo piensan empezar a operar?
  the gang's operations — las actividades de la banda
  Second, relief operations run by the military carry the risk that they become a ruse to conduct military operations under the guise of supposedly providing assistance.
  It would direct defensive military operations should the United States be attacked.
  The government often retaliates with military operations and air strikes.
  But first, we begin with two military operations, both of which may be tainted somewhat with controversy.
  He has also noted that about half the cases this year occurred during active hostilities or combat operations in the Persian Gulf.
  The CPS is responsible for ‘political control and strategic management’ during military operations.
  In November, the Indian government announced that military operations against the guerrilla groups were unilaterally halted.
  On the ground, peacekeeping operations demonstrate the broadening functions of armies.
  Stalin at first panicked, but then assumed personal control over military operations.
  The official avoided making specific comments on the possibility of a U.S.-led military operation to rescue Koda.
  Previously the US has had problems with countries not letting them use their bases for military operations and in directly deploying troops to war zones.
  Tribals, incensed by the military operations, could reject the dominion of the federal government.
  Before the recent military operations began in Afghanistan doubters claimed that the enterprise would end in disaster, but the coalition's aims were all met.
  He plans to do this by giving control of military operations and lucrative contracts to the United Nations.
  Mercado said four soldiers have so far been wounded in the military rescue operation launched by the government in the early hours of Saturday.
  Arguably they are too late, since the unprecedented military operation staged to rescue her was itself a made for-TV movie directed by the Pentagon.
  I'm willing to give greater powers to an intelligence director provided we do not give him the power to direct military operations.
  In other countries, media are simply banned from covering military operations except for passing on government statements.
  His leadership combined military operations, government administration, and economic management.
  Because assassination is an act of war, such activities should always be considered a military operation.
- 3.2(enterprise)
  operación feminine
  Business operación comercial
  At the lower levels of business activities within this sector are very small operations that employ as few as five employees at maximum.
  Today, the companies are vastly different operations and producing returns at opposite ends of the scale for their owners.
  Skip forward six months and we find a much different biodiesel-making operation.
  One method allows organic dairy operations to employ a one-year conversion.
  Businesses can range from a one-person operation through to those employing a sizeable workforce.
  Although starting up an e-tailing operation often makes good business sense, it can make for a bear of a rollout.
  Two of the bee keepers ran commercial operations involving as many as 800 hives, while many of the rest ran about 20 hives each.
  Estate agents are being offered the chance to turn their businesses into round-the-clock operations, selling homes during both the day and night.
  Inquiries about a private operation produced an estimate of £19,000.
  But too many traditional members' golf clubs fail to recognise that most of Scotland's new courses are commercial operations run as leisure businesses.
  Migrants from other islands working for the mining operation or smaller businesses are people who have been accustomed to working hours.
  Des, struggling to establish his new business as a one-man operation, gets to grips with new briefs - and not just the legal kind.
  That nice couple operate a dial-a-driver business as a part-time operation.
  They recently opened a second operation in a different part of Dobsonville, and their business continues its phenomenal growth.
  Most companies have not made the transition from being multi-region organizations to truly global operations.
4
Military
operación feminine
Operation Tiger — Operación Tigre
5
Medicine
operación feminine
intervención quirúrgica feminine formal
who performed the operation? — ¿quién la (or lo) operó?
- he has to have an operation — se tiene que operar
- to undergo an operation — ser sometido a una intervención quirúrgica
- operation on sth/sb
- he had an operation on his knee — le operaron la rodilla
- This complication is dependent upon the general state of health of the patient and the extent of the operation performed.
- Patients can visit day surgery units for small operations and be allowed to return home later in the day or evening.
- To avoid this problem, some surgeons perform coronary bypass operations on beating hearts.
- Doctors abandoned up to a dozen heart operations, including by-pass surgery, after the blunder was discovered last Thursday.
- They not only provide preventive and basic curative health care but also perform family planning procedures and other surgical operations.
- In the present study, all operations were performed by one surgeon, avoiding variation in surgical technique as a cause of altered blood loss.
- Cardiac surgical procedures are among the most commonly performed operations in the United States.
- You may also be asked to avoid eating or drinking from the evening before the surgery until the operation is complete.
- As surgery becomes more precise, faster and safer, related operations are more frequently performed at the same time.
- Doctors are so scared of being sued that many will refuse to treat high-risk patients or perform difficult operations, medical experts have warned.
- Vasectomy can easily be performed as an outpatient operation under local anaesthetic.
- The unit will be able to correct various visual problems and perform life-changing operations that will allow patients to see again.
- It provides a solution to the old problem of what legal rule allows a casualty surgeon to perform an urgent operation on an unconscious patient who is brought into hospital.
- The hospital where he treated patients and performed operations is no more.
- The scheme will then be rolled out to reduce the backlog of patients waiting for other operations such as cataract surgery or hip and knee replacements.
- In the past three months, the hospital has treated 26,000 patients and performed 300 operations.
- The operation is performed in an operating theatre while you are lying down on your back.
- The operation is performed under cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermia.
- We did not study in detail whether the change in sexual activity before and after hysterectomy was related to the operation performed or to other circumstances in life.
- One of the commonest operations performed in Australia is gall bladder removal: the cholecystectomy, usually for gall stones.
6
- 6.1Mathematics
  operación feminine
  the four operations — las cuatro operaciones aritméticas
  That is addition, multiplication and the two inverse operations of subtraction and division.
  Problems can be created to cover all math operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
  The inverse of an operation undoes the operation: division undoes multiplication.
  For example, one can have a group in which the objects are numbers and the combining operation is addition or multiplication.
  Is she over-generalizing the order of operations, thinking that multiplication takes precedence over division?
- 6.2Computing
  operación feminine