adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
operating/operational efficiency (=the efficiency with which a machine or system works)
▪ The computer can process this information quickly, without any loss of operating efficiency.
operational research
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
▪ Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
▪ Implementation would take at least six months, culminating in fully operational work-unit teams.
▪ Once fully operational, they should process 3,000 tons of effluent a day.
▪ What had to be sacrificed was time, since it would be years before the shuttle would be fully operational.
▪ Once the system is fully operational, then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile.
▪ It is to be fully operational by mid-2003.
▪ The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they'd be fully operational immediately.
▪ The new office in Campbell plans to have 45 real estate agents when fully operational.
■ NOUN
amplifier
▪ IC1 acts as the input buffer stage, and it is a simple operational amplifier non-inverting mode circuit.
▪ Note that the saturation potential differences are close to the supply e.m.f.s biasing the operational amplifier.
▪ Differentiators based on operational amplifiers do not suffer from drift.
area
▪ To get to their proposed operational area the convoy had to take a difficult route.
▪ He was carefully tactful about his appearance in the ship's operational areas.
balance
▪ Customers of other banks will have more securities, fewer bank deposits and their banks will have fewer operational balances.
▪ The clearing banks, in addition, hold at the Bank whatever operational balances they deem necessary.
▪ Remember though that each bank was able to lend only by running down operational balances in order to make advances.
▪ It would gain deposits, matched exactly of course by additional operational balances.
▪ The bankers' deposits item in the balance sheet refers to the cash ratio and operational balances of the banks.
control
▪ It contrasts with the information needs for operational control which are well defined, detailed and accurate.
▪ The Special Branch, on the other hand, was under G-2 and was principally an analytical organization with no operational control.
▪ The knowledge workers in the insurance company were responsible for processing this mass of data to maintain operational control of the business.
▪ Vice President Rutskoi was named head of an operational control centre.
▪ The Tory back-benchers could take some comfort from the argument that it was operational control rather than manufacture of the weapons that mattered.
costs
▪ At least eight other such agencies that simply needed money for operational costs were denied funds.
difficulty
▪ Not surprisingly, this approach met with formidable operational difficulties.
▪ It does, however, present a number of operational difficulties that require basic research before it can be widely used.
▪ Both speech and handwriting recognisers suffer from operational difficulties.
▪ For speech recognition the principal operational difficulty to be faced is the interference to the acoustic signal from background noise.
▪ These are variability, segmentation and operational difficulties.
▪ There are certain operational difficulties associated with speech recognition.
efficiency
▪ The narrower is this spread, the greater will be the operational efficiency of the market.
experience
▪ The assessment relies largely on a combination of operational experience and professional judgement.
▪ Stoddard operational experience is second to none, maintaining their position as world leaders in Bonded Technology.
information
▪ The quantity of operational information in the industrial assurance enterprise was vast.
▪ In principle, now that operational information is largely electronic, it could be preserved in electronic form in its totality.
▪ Percentages, accounting ratios and averages are helpful in presenting the operational information in a simple manner.
▪ In the case of operational information, however, this is no longer necessarily nor universally true.
level
▪ The bottom level, the operational level, involves aspects such as maintaining road position and the use of the car controls.
▪ At the formal operational level, internal reflection can result in new knowledge-new construction.
▪ At the concrete operational level, efforts are more systematic but not fully so.
▪ At the operational level, the Centre has produced a Manual of Sampling practice, to be published during 1986.
▪ Tackle crime and disorder problems: inter-agency, partnership approaches are essential here at both the strategic and operational level.
life
▪ It briefly considers the prospects for extending the operational life of obsolete systems through physical restoration as well as logical simulation.
▪ At best such ventures can extend the operational life of obsolete systems.
matter
▪ This would appear to legitimise his interference in operational matters in appropriate cases.
▪ The implementation of section 39 is an operational matter for the chief constable.
plan
▪ She will be responsible for overseeing strategic and operational plans.
▪ No change, however, was made in the operational plan.
▪ This amount of effort will require the allocation of finance with a high priority in operational plans.
▪ Various recommendations were advanced for making changes in the operational plan, but for the most part they got nowhere.
policy
▪ Formal guidelines covering team objectives and operational policies were at a minimum in 1982.
▪ Thus, many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons.
▪ The teams have similar operational policies, including an open referral system, and accept cases from a wide range of agencies.
▪ Setting - Two community psychogeriatric teams with similar operational policies in an inner London health district.
problem
▪ Fortunately, the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published.
▪ Forty-four percent listed subcontractor quality and pricing as the most significant operational problem or challenge.
▪ The operational problems of the previous 20 years legitimized comparatively limited increases in worker control and attendant changes to the management function.
▪ Due to the nature of our operations short-notice alterations had to be made to our notified programme because of weather or operational problems.
▪ Discussions deal with the co-ordination of activities and the settlement of operational problems on an adhoc basis.
procedure
▪ All hauliers audited for safety and operational procedures.
▪ Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis.
▪ Of course, these strivings to realize organizational goals may become crystallized in standard operational procedures.
▪ They will need clear and concise operational procedures to be written.
requirement
▪ Agreeing operational requirements is the first and most tiresome obstacle.
▪ Not many companies can afford the high cost of entry or meet the stringent operational requirements.
▪ Designing the information systems project around management needs may, however, ignore the operational requirements.
▪ To fulfil operational requirements as well may lead to data being collected, validated and stored more than once.
▪ These systems have proved capable of meeting the specified operational requirements on a variety of fires in different categories of combustibles.
▪ The structure of the Group has altered radically to accommodate its changing operational requirements.
research
▪ It has, today, been adapted to measure the effectiveness of operational research.
▪ Graduates often enter other professions such as those of the actuary, accountant, and operational research scientist.
▪ In 1941 Williams became director of operational research at Coastal Command.
side
▪ Tie a length of cord to each of the lowest rings, placing the shortest length nearest the operational side.
▪ Similarly on the operational side, separate investigators can pursue different subjects.
▪ In the early seventies an interesting development on our operational side was the emergence of illegal immigrant running by sea.
▪ It clearly felt that the police authority should have no control over general policy or the operational side of police work.
stage
▪ Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project, which was still at an early operational stage in 1979.
▪ The major affective constructions during the stage of formal operations build on those of the concrete operational stage.
▪ Operations become truly logical during the concrete operational stage.
system
▪ The idea that a baseline need only be established immediately prior to delivery of an operational system is considered to be unsound.
▪ Benefits from operational systems can be measured, although not easily and not many organisations carry out thorough evaluations.
▪ An operational System should be able to forecast, detect and react to dangerous pollution levels within a short period.
▪ We will wish to introduce clear guidance and operational systems to expedite this as soon as possible.
▪ The operational system appeared, to a certain extent, to be fairly regulated with highly structured and defined job descriptions.
thought
▪ Whereas concrete operational thought is logical thought, it is restricted to the concrete world.
▪ Concrete operational thought is reversible thought.
▪ The transformation from the latter part of preoperational thought to early concrete operational thought is not an abrupt one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At least eight countries are known to have operational nuclear weapons.
▪ the bank's operational budget
▪ The satellite is expected to be operational by next week.
▪ The terminal is fully operational and airlines will begin using it next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In education operational time scales tend to be longer than commercial ones, certainly so far as joint projects are concerned.
▪ It has, today, been adapted to measure the effectiveness of operational research.
▪ Lothian Region and Edinburgh District councils are expected to approve the scheme next month and it could be operational within 18 months.
▪ Nor will they instruct you about specific strategic, organizational, or operational choices peculiar to your own organization.
▪ Once the country's largest dry ski-slope is fully operational it is hoped to offer up to 70 part-time jobs to experienced skiers.
▪ The budget is an operational statement in monetary terms.
▪ The major affective constructions during the stage of formal operations build on those of the concrete operational stage.
▪ This provides us with a very operational view concerning these matters.