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operator
[ op-uh-rey-ter ]
noun
- a person who operates a machine, apparatus, or the like:
a telegraph operator.
- a person who operates a telephone switchboard, especially for a telephone company.
- a person who manages a working or industrial establishment, enterprise, or system:
the operators of a mine.
- a person who trades in securities, especially speculatively or on a large scale.
- a person who performs a surgical operation; a surgeon.
- Mathematics.
- a symbol for expressing a mathematical operation.
- a function, especially one transforming a function, set, etc., into another:
a differential operator.
- Informal.
- a person who accomplishes goals or purposes by devious means; faker; fraud.
- a person who is adroit at overcoming, avoiding, or evading difficulties, regulations, or restrictions.
- a person who is extremely successful with or smoothly persuasive to potential sexual or romantic partners.
- Genetics. a segment of DNA that interacts with a regulatory molecule, preventing transcription of the adjacent region.
operator
/ ˈɒəˌɪə /
noun
- a person who operates a machine, instrument, etc, esp, a person who makes connections on a telephone switchboard or at an exchange
- a person who owns or operates an industrial or commercial establishment
- a speculator, esp one who operates on currency or stock markets
- informal.a person who manipulates affairs and other people
- maths any symbol, term, letter, etc, used to indicate or express a specific operation or process, such as Δ (the differential operator)
operator
- Mathematics.A function, especially one from a set to itself, such as differentiation of a differentiable function or rotation of a vector. In quantum mechanics, measurable quantities of a physical system, such as position and momentum, are related to unique operators applied to the wave equation describing the system.
- A logical operator.
- Genetics.A segment of chromosomal DNA that regulates the activity of the structural genes of an operon by interacting with a specific repressor.
Other Word Forms
- ·DZİ·tǰ noun
- -DZİ·tǰ noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
As part of their permitting arrangements water companies are expected to regularly sample water quality to identify potential pollution, and submit this data to the Environment Agency in an arrangement known as "operator self monitoring".
“This translates into less work across the region’s supply chains, affecting port operators, haulers, wholesalers and other workers,” the report said.
Denmark and Germany signed an agreement to build the tunnel back in 2008, but the scheme was delayed by opposition from ferry operators and German conservation groups concerned about the ecological impact.
A group of GP practices in Sussex has joined forces with a sports centre operator to open a new healthcare service.
These included a swimming programme delivered in partnership with leisure operator GLL, the council's community boxing initiative and its mental health support event, held as part of last year's World Suicide Prevention Day, he said.
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