Also means
operation, mission
Usage Note
Opération covers medical surgery (une opération chirurgicale), a military or police operation, and a mathematical operation. In everyday speech, une opération most often means a surgical procedure. The verb opérer means to operate on (a patient) or to carry out an operation.
Examples
"L'opération a duré trois heures."
Natural Translation
The operation lasted three hours.

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