machine operation

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machine operation - an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform computer operation floating-point operation, flop - an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second" 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