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MACHINE OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does machine operation mean? 

MACHINE OPERATION (noun)
  The noun MACHINE OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to performplay

  Familiarity information: MACHINE OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MACHINE OPERATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

computer operation; machine operation

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)


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