operator
Meaning
- One who operates.
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- The game of Chinese whispers.
- (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
- The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- A bus driver.
- (slang) A thief or charlatan.
- (slang) A major criminal.
- (slang) Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.
Synonyms
switchboard operator
operating body
wheeler dealer
machineman
assistant engineer
actuating mechanism
office foreman
operator gene
instruction character
operational character
operational symbol
erecting machinist
actor
phone man
Frequency
Hyphenated as
op‧er‧ator
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin operatōr, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.
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