operationalityn.
/ˌɒpəreɪʃəˈnalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɑpəˌreɪʃ(ə)ˈnælədi/ The quality or property of being operational.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > condition of being operative
gestion1599
working order1725
operation1792
running order1811
commission1829
commish1856
operationality1939
1939 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 4 629 The four criteria of operationality, reliability, parsimony, and classification..have been applied.
1943 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 48 482/2 Allowing for gradations of operationality means that almost every definition may be considered as slightly operational in that it involves the operations of specifying the differentiae.
1973 Nature 21 Dec. 532/1 Piaget's insistence on ‘operationality’ makes his experiments indirect and complicated.
1999 T. Fry New Design Philos. i. i. 33 Technology provides an operationality beyond cultural difference.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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