The phrase "a formal operation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to mathematics, logic, or structured processes that require adherence to specific rules or protocols.
Example: "In mathematics, a formal operation must follow established rules to ensure accurate results."
Alternatives: "a structured process" or "an official procedure".
This session will address the anonymous as a formal operation.
"Many techniques [require] sophisticated instruments in skilled hands, or even a formal operation".
N.I.Y.A. is less a formal operation than a loose affiliation of individuals who feel that they have run out of alternatives.
… A computation, according to this understanding, is a formal operation on syntactically structured representations". That is, thought processes depend on the form, not the meaning, of the items they work on.
And in this review and invention of past scenes that are imagined in various forms, the children frame the idea of generations as a narrative and temporal construct (as well as a biological one) of genealogy, as a form of resistance to their legacies and, finally, as a formal operation of timelessness.
DCS can be described as a formal operation on automata [9]: given an automaton representing all possible behaviours of a system, its variables are partitioned into controllable and uncontrollable variables.
In the 1990s it became a more formal operation, although the shelter is still technically squatting on the land, and visitors drop in to enjoy what is one of Rome's more curious attractions.
Although his clients include ambassadors from Kuwait and Italy, Indian government officials and descendants of maharajahs, he runs a slightly less formal operation than Mr. Vaish does.
Mr. Getz was instrumental in creating a formal development operation for the Clinton Foundation, which raised in excess of $135 million annually.
Nor are they likely to be able to completely determine whether Israel regarded the entire matter as a formal intelligence operation or as a casual relationship that Mr. Franklin himself may not have fully understood.
Although locals were already plundering through the wreckage, the colony organised a formal salvage operation that recovered items like anchors, chains, tents, and cannons; the items recovered were auctioned.
