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Webster 1913 Edition

Operator

Op′er-aˊtor

,
Noun.
[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 1828 Edition

Operator

OP'ERATOR

, n.
1.
He or that which operates; he or that which produces an effect.
2.
In surgery, the person who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments; as a skillful operator.

Definition 2024

Operator

Operator

German

Noun

Operator m

  1. operator (mathematical operator)

operator

operator

English

Noun

operator ‎(plural operators)

  1. One who operates.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
      The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
  2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
  3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
  4. Chinese whispers.
  5. (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 **** of an operator in his day.
  6. A member of a military Special Operations unit.
  7. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
  8. (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.

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Kurdish

Noun

operator ?

  1. surgeon (doctor who performs surgery)


This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at surgeon. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see operator in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /o.peˈraː.tor/, [ɔ.pɛˈraː.tɔr]

Noun

operātor m ‎(genitive operātōris); third declension

  1. worker, operator

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative operātor operātōrēs
genitive operātōris operātōrum
dative operātōrī operātōribus
accusative operātōrem operātōrēs
ablative operātōre operātōribus
vocative operātor operātōrēs

Descendants

Verb

operātor

  1. second-person singular future active imperative of operor
  2. third-person singular future active imperative of operor

References

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /opěraːtor/
  • Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra‧tor

Noun

opèrātor m ‎(Cyrillic spelling опѐра̄тор)

  1. (mathematics) operator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

operator c

  1. (mathematics, computing) an operator

Declension

Inflection of operator 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative operator operatorn operatorer operatorerna
Genitive operators operatorns operatorers operatorernas

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