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operate

mastery

UK /ˈɒpəɹeɪt/ US /ˈɑpəɹeɪt/verb

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What does 'operate' mean in this sentence?

We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience.