Operations and function

Are operations and function the same thing?
Or what are the difference?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "operations". Are you referring to operator overloading?
Thanks, i am new and i am reading a material with contents below in bold

program.
To create operations, you write algorithms and implement them in a programming language. Because a data element
in a complex program usually has many operations, to separate operations from each other and to use them effectively
and in a convenient manner, you use functions to implement algorithms. After a brief introduction in Chapters 2 and
3, you will learn the details of functions in Chapter 6. Certain algorithms require that a program make decisions, a
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process called selection. Other algorithms might require certain statements to be repeated until certain conditions are
met, a process called repetition.
The word 'operation' is being used in a very abstract high-level way in this context.
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