Word Origin & History. limb O.E. lim limb, joint, main branch of a tree, from P.Gmc. *limu- (cf. O.N. limr limb, lim small branch of a tree), a variant of *liÃ¾u- (cf. O.E. liÃ¾, O.Fris. lith, O.N. liÃ°r, Goth. liÃ¾us a limb; with prefix ga-, source of Ger. glied limb, member), from PIE base *lei- to bend, be movable, be nimble.. The parasitic -b began to appear late 1500s for no reason.
Operations management (OM) is the business function responsible for managing the process of creation of goods and services. It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a companyâs goods and services.
The notions of operand, operation, operation symbol, and expression. Operand is a constant, a variable, an array component, or a value returned by a function. An operation is an action made upon operands. An operation symbol is a preset character or group of characters that order to execute an operation. An expression is a sequence of operands and operation symbols; it is a program record, the calculated value of which is characterized by a data type.