Consider two Generalized cohomology theories and on CW pairs. A sequence of natural transformations commuting with the connecting homomorphisms is called a natural transformation of degree . If , call this a stable cohomology operation of degree . There is a similar notion for Reduced cohomology theories.
Book: Cohomology Operations and Applications in Homotopy Theory, by Mosher and Tangora
nLab page on Cohomology operation