noun. undefined

noun. One who operates a machine or device.

noun. The owner or manager of a business.

noun. A military person who executes a special operation.

noun. A person who is adept at accomplishing goals through shrewd or unscrupulous maneuvers.

noun. A function, especially one from a set to itself, such as differentiation of a differentiable function or rotation of a vector.

noun. A logical operator.

noun. A chromosomal segment of DNA that regulates the activity of the structural genes of an operon by interacting with a specific repressor.

noun. One who conducts a business, as mining; a capitalist who carries on a business: opposed to operative.

noun. One who operates in any way, or on or against anything.

noun. One who performs a surgical operation.

noun. One who exercises power, labor, skill, or influence in the accomplishment of some end; one who manipulates something, or is engaged in carrying on a series of acts or transactions by which some intended result is to be reached: as, a telegraph-operator; a Wall-street operator; an operator in wheat.

noun. In mathematics, a letter or other character signifying an operation to be performed, and itself subject to algebraical operation: as, a vector operator.

noun. where x, y, z are the rectangular coördinates of the variable point in space where the operand is found, and i, j, k are unit vectors respectively parallel to x, y, z.

noun. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

noun. One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

noun. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.

noun. The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.

noun. A person who operates a telephone switchboard.

noun. A person who schemes and maneuvers adroitly or deviously to achieve his/her purposes.

noun. One who operates.

noun. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.

noun. A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.

noun. Another name for Chinese whispers.

noun. A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

noun. A member of a military Special Operations unit.

noun. The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

noun. an agent that operates some apparatus or machine

noun. a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets

noun. a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties

noun. (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation

noun. someone who owns or operates a business

"In this book I'll use the term operator throughout."

hamiltonian operator  laplace's operator  

opera  operable  operand  operant  operate  

smooth operator  

plunger  speculator  

agent  computer  driver  engineer  facility  

Machiavellian  PBX operator  activist  actor  administrator  

facient