ops

Meanings

1. plural of op

1. operations
2. operator status

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of op

1. Initialism of on-base plus slugging.
2. Initialism of other professional studies.

1. Initialism of Open Publication Structure, a sub-specification of EPUB.

1. plural of OP

1. The goddess of earth and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Rhea, Ops was the sister-wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter. After Saturn learned of a prophecy that his children by Ops would overthrow him, he ate each of them just after they were born; however, Ops saved Jupiter by feeding Saturn a stone instead.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Ops, from Latin ops (“resources, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- base