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| 1. | a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like: a telegraph operator. |
| 2. | a person who operates a telephone switchboard, esp. for a telephone company. |
| 3. | a person who manages a working or industrial establishment, enterprise, or system: the operators of a mine. |
| 4. | a person who trades in securities, esp. speculatively or on a large scale. |
| 5. | a person who performs a surgical operation; a surgeon. |
| 6. | Mathematics.
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| 7. | Informal.
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| 8. | Genetics. a segment of DNA that interacts with a regulatory molecule, preventing transcription of the adjacent region. |
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| operator | |
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| 1. | (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation |
| 2. | an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" |
| 3. | someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?" |
| 4. | a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties [syn: hustler] |
| 5. | a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈoperator1 noun
a person who works a machine
Example: a lift operator
ˈoperator2 nounExample: a lift operator
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a person who connects telephone calls
Example: Ask the operator to connect you to that number.
See also: operating room, operative, operation, operational, operateExample: Ask the operator to connect you to that number.
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| The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
operator programming
A symbol used as a function, with infix syntax if it has two arguments (e.g. "+") or prefix syntax if it has only one (e.g. Boolean NOT). Many languages use operators for built-in functions such as arithmetic and logic.
(1995-04-30)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Operator
Op"er*a`tor\, n. [L.]1. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect. 2. (Surg.) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments. 3. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant] 4. (Math.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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