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ops

ops is the plural of op.

ops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of op.

Noun (1)

ops (uncountable)

  1. (informal) operations
    • Arbiter and I will guard the Ops Center.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest
    • They work in spec ops
  2. (Internet) operator status
    • Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?
    • Perhaps I might now add one more piece of etiquette advice, for which all chanops will thank me. If you want ops on a channel, don't beg for them […]1995, Stuart H. Harris, The IRC Survival Guide, page 121

Meaning of op

Noun

op (plural ops)

  1. (informal) An amateur radio operator.
  2. (Internet, informal) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.

See all 5 meanings of op

Noun (2) capitalized: OPS

OPS (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of on-base plus slugging.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of other professional studies.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: OPS

OPS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Open Publication Structure, a sub-specification of EPUB.

Noun (3) capitalized: OPs

OPs

  1. (plural) plural of OP

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ops

Ops

  1. (Roman) The goddess of earth and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Rhea, Ops was the sister-wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter. After Saturn learned of a prophecy that his children by Ops would overthrow him, he ate each of them just after they were born; however, Ops saved Jupiter by feeding Saturn a stone instead.

Origin of ops

Learned borrowing from Latin Ops, from Latin ops (“resources, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- base

Words formed from ops

Phrases with ops

Questions about ops

What does ops mean?
Ops means operations.
What is ops the plural of?
Ops is the plural of op.
What part of speech is ops?
Ops can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ops in the dictionary

  1. OProv
  2. oprs.
  3. Oprtalj
  4. OPruss
  5. opry
  6. ops
  7. OPS+
  8. opsec
  9. opseospermata
  10. OPSEU
  11. opsiblastic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ops (page history and authors); OPS (page history and authors); OPs (page history and authors); Ops (page history and authors); op (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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