Pronunciation Noun
operator
- One who operates.
- A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
- (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
- (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
- (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.
- Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
- 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:
- A member of a military special operations unit.
- (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
- (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
- (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
- In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.
- French: téléphoniste
- German: Telefonist, Telefonistin, Vermittlung
- Portuguese: telefonista
- Russian: телефони́ст
- French: opérateur
- German: Operator, Rechenzeichen
- Italian: operatore
- Portuguese: operador
- Russian: опера́тор
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