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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 51Թ Forms
- ·DZİ·tǰ noun
- -DZİ·tǰ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
The Spanish grid operator has ruled out a cyber attack as the cause of a massive power cut that crippled Spain, Portugal and parts of France on Monday.
The initial focus was to get the northern and southern power generating regions working again, which grid operator Red Eléctrica said was key to "gradually re-energising the transmission grid as the generating units are connected".
A group of prominent tour operators said in a press conference that some 80-90% of all bookings had been cancelled.
A Spanish operator said power restoration would take up to 10 hours, while Portugal's power firm REN said getting back to full power could take up to a week.
Within two hours, Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica said it was beginning to recover power in the north and south of the country.
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