surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available; he died while undergoing surgery.
A quarter mile is, by definition, a fourth of a mile. It is 1,320 feet or 402.3 meters. On a standard-sized Olympic track, it is a little more than a single lap.
Since the change, the record speed for a 1,000-foot run is 312.13 mph, set last year by Ashley Force Hood in Commerce, Ga. The top-fuel record for a quarter-mile was set by Tony Schumacher, 336.15 mph, in 2005. Larry Dixon holds the 1,000-foot top-fuel record, 321.58 mph, set last November in Pomona.