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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

event go
something that happens at a given place and time

act, deed, human action, human activity go
something that people do or cause to happen

activity go
any specific behavior

process, procedure go
a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

calculation, computation, computing go
the procedure of calculating

operation, mathematical process, mathematical operation
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

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10 Subcategories

permutation go
the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements
combination go
the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
differentiation go
the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
maximization go
the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function
integration go
an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined
involution, exponentiation go
the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
arithmetic operation go
a mathematical operation involving numbers
matrix operation go
a mathematical operation involving matrices
construction go
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
relaxation, relaxation method go
a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount