WordNet
machine operation
n. an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform [syn: computer operation]
Usage examples of "machine operation".
The five youths who might have said something were at the Academy, three of them learning machine operation and how to keep the passes open in winter with blade scrapers, the other two learning to be pilots.
Probably put there to illuminate the sewing-machine operation or whatever was there a hundred years ago.