WordNet
n. a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it [syn: instruction manual, instructions, book of instructions]
Usage examples of "operating instructions".
They sailed out from I/O ports in vessels knitted together from operating instructions to hunt down Francine.
He would have given some operating instructions, somewhere along the line.
Cahn said after consulting his Signal Operating Instructions for 0001-2400 6 October 1942.
When you handled this system counter to operating instructions, anything could go out of kilter.
But with my luck, shed probably deflate before I figured out the operating instructions.
Data in dozens of arrangements, for design, training aids, or operating instructions are needed by folks who, very often, haven't used the equipment before or who, for some other reason, need specs right there, alongside, all the time.
Locks was looking at a paper on which were the operating instructions given to him by his informant.