English

hyperoperation

From hyper- + operation.

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Latin opus ‘work’

Latin operor ‘to work’

Latin operātiō

Old French operacion ‘action’

Middle English operacioun

Today it means

noun One of a sequence of operations for compounding numbers that increase in growth iteratively.

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Etymograph / hyperoperation