English Explanatory Dictionary

operator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person or organisation that operates a device, system, service, etc.
  2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to connect or otherwise assist callers.
  3. A member of a military special operations unit.
  4. A surgeon; one who performs medical operations.
  5. The game of Chinese whispers.
  6. A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
  7. A function or other mapping that carries values defined on a domain into another value or set of values in a defined range.
  8. The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
  9. A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
  10. A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.
  11. A bus driver.
  12. The company that operates a mine; often the same one that owns the mine.

Pronunciation

/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/ /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-operator.wav

Word forms

operator operators

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin operātor, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate + -or.

Related words

opera operable operand operant operate operation operational operative opus

Derived words

cooperator eigenoperator hyperoperator interoperator intraoperator metaoperator nonoperator operatorial operatorless operatorship operator theory operatress operon stoperator superoperator sysop teleoperator

Translations

Belarusian: апера́тар Bulgarian: опера́тор Chinese Mandarin: 操作者 Chinese Mandarin: 運算符 /运算符 Chinese Mandarin: 算子 Cornish: oberador Cornish: oberadores Danish: operatør Danish: operator Dutch: bediener Finnish: toimija Finnish: operaattori Finnish: käyttäjä Finnish: koneenkäyttäjä Finnish: kuljettaja Finnish: liikennöitsijä French: opérateur Galician: operador German: Betreiber German: Operator German: Rechenzeichen Greek: χειριστής Greek: τελεστής Hebrew: מפעיל Hindi: संचालक Hungarian: kezelő Hungarian: gépkezelő Hungarian: üzemeltető Hungarian: üzembentartó Hungarian: műveleti jel Hungarian: operátor Japanese: 操作者 Japanese: オペレーター Japanese: 演算子 Japanese: 作用素 Korean: 조작자 Korean: 오퍼레이터 Macedonian: опера́тор Polish: operator Portuguese: operador Romanian: operator Russian: опера́тор Serbo-Croatian: operater Serbo-Croatian: оператер Serbo-Croatian: operator Serbo-Croatian: djelatelj Spanish: operador Swedish: operatör Swedish: operator Turkish: operatör Ukrainian: опера́тор Czech: operátor Esperanto: operacio Icelandic: virki Italian: operatore Kazakh: оператор Persian: عملگر Persian: عملیپتال Tagalog: pakilos Vietnamese: toán tử
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