American English pronunciation
How to pronounce operator
IPA transcription: ['ɑpɚ,eɪtɚ]
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Noun
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(mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
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an agent that operates some apparatus or machine
“the operator of the switchboard”
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someone who owns or operates a business
“who is the operator of this franchise?”
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a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
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a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
Usage examples
- It was named for travel entrepreneur Edwin L. Bonner, a ferry operator.
- This command may only be issued by channel operators.
- Historically, there was no syntactic distinction between the bitwise and logical operators.
- Horizon Holidays was one of the first tour operators to contract the airline's aircraft.
- It computes the spectral flow of the Cauchy-Riemann-type operators that arise in Floer homology.
- In many programming languages, string concatenation is a binary infix operator.
- Hecke operators may be studied geometrically, as correspondences connecting pairs of modular curves.
- There are several major operators including Thai Airways, Air Asia, Nok Air.
- Today, the class of normal operators is well understood.
- The winch operator pulled both of them to safety.