operator

Phonetic

US /ˈɑːpəreɪtər/UK /ˈɒpəreɪtə(r)/

Translations

NOUNOne who operates., A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections., A member of a military special operations unit., The game of Chinese whispers., A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods., A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range., The administrator of a channel or network on IRC., A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax., A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable., A bus driver., A thief or charlatan., A major criminal., Someone who is successful at pursuing women; a player.

Variants

  • operators: Plural

Examples

  • Now, what is this funny e(P, Q) operator that we introduced above? This is the pairing

    Source:medium.com

  • Here’s how it works: the operator makes a tiny change in the Merklized state without disclosing the state change to users

    Source:medium.com

  • In this example, the flowOn operator moves the emission of values to a background thread (IO), while the collection happens on the Main thread.

    Source:medium.com

  • Operator, a tool that can perform tasks on a user’s behalf, is occasionally erratic/ɪˈrætɪk/, Kevin Roose writes, but it points to a future of powerful A.I. agents.

    Source:www.nytimes.com

  • John Burton, a crotchety operator of California’s political machine, would accompany Newsom senior to his son’s basketball games.

    Source:www.economist.com

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