operator
Definitions
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"Fred was the first to be operated on." -
WordNet 3.6
- n operator a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties
- n operator an agent that operates some apparatus or machine "the operator of the switchboard"
- n operator someone who owns or operates a business "who is the operator of this franchise?"
- n operator a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
- n operator (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
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Additional illustrations & photos:
Objects found at a 17th-century forge site at Jamestown: blacksmith’s tools, bar iron, a few incomplete items, sword...
Artifacts found near the site of the Jamestown glasshouse which was in operation as early as 1608: a small melting...
A SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERATION
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Interesting fact: In the year 1900, for a women to be a telephone operator she had to be between the ages of 17 and 26 and not be married
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- Operator A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
- Operator A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
- Operator A person who schemes and maneuvers adroitly or deviously to achieve his/her purposes.
- Operator (Surg) One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.
- Operator One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.
- Operator (Math) The symbol that expresses the operation to be performed; -- called also facient.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Interesting fact: In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day
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- n operator One who operates in any way, or on or against anything.
- n operator One who performs a surgical operation.
- n operator 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.
- n operator In mathematics, a letter or other character signifying an operation to be performed, and itself subject to algebraical operation: as, a vector operator.
- n operator 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.
- n operator One who conducts a business, as mining; a capitalist who carries on a business: opposed to operative.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation
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- Operator one who, or that which, operates or produces an effect:
- Operator (math.) a letter, &c., signifying an operation to be performed
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Quotations
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“The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.” -
“Never say oops in the operating room.”
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“The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.” -
“Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.” -
“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.” -
“You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. operāri, -ātus—opera, work, closely conn. with opus, operis, work.
Usage
In literature:
It may consist of a single operation, or of successive or concurrent operations.
"Sound Military Decision" by U.s. Naval War College
Co-operation with artillery and infantry.
"The War in the Air; Vol. 1" by Walter Raleigh
Smaller forces operating in Upper Alsace played little real part in the operations.
"The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8)" by Various
There was a fixed rotation of duties that they followed in the ship's operation.
"Deathworld" by Harry Harrison
Let the co-operators co-operate with each other, with trade unionists, and Social Democrats for the same object.
"British Socialism" by J. Ellis Barker
Both before and after operation, massage and movement are to be carried out, as in fractures treated by other methods.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition." by Alexander Miles
Habit operates as a kind of stimulus, and, as may be said, as necessity.
"Introduction to the Science of Sociology" by Robert E. Park
It forbade the coffee houses to operate after January 10, 1676.
"All About Coffee" by William H. Ukers
The wireless operator turned his back impolitely; Ah Sih King did likewise.
"Peter the Brazen" by George F. Worts
To the Turk no operation of the war appeared more important than did the campaign against Egypt.
"The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)" by Various
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In poetry:
"Fow Wot?" says the lad, mouth and eyes open full;
"Because, after eating, he's apt to be dull.
To this operation an hostler is willing,
Because his demand, as a fee, is a shilling."
"Because, after eating, he's apt to be dull.
To this operation an hostler is willing,
Because his demand, as a fee, is a shilling."
"The Art Of Speaking" by William Hutton
WHENE'ER with pitying eye I view
Each operative sot in town.
I smile to think how wondrous few
Get drunk who study at the U-
—niversity we've Got in town,
—niversity we've Got in town.
Each operative sot in town.
I smile to think how wondrous few
Get drunk who study at the U-
—niversity we've Got in town,
—niversity we've Got in town.
"Stinkomalee Triumphans" by Richard Harris Barham
Insulting, they put guardrails up,
as if it were a crib!
I growl at the head nurse; we compose on one.
I have been operating from nothing,
like a dog after its tail
more slowly, losing altitude.
as if it were a crib!
I growl at the head nurse; we compose on one.
I have been operating from nothing,
like a dog after its tail
more slowly, losing altitude.
"Dream Song 54: 'NO VISITORS' I thumb the roller to" by John Berryman
And the operator says "Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."
Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye !
Please Mrs. Avery, I've just got to talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, just want to tell her
Goodbye !
"Sylvia's Mother" by Shel Silverstein
War shall yet be, and to the end;
But war-paint shows the streaks of weather;
War yet shall be, but the warriors
Are now but operatives; War's made
Less grand than Peace,
And a singe runs through lace and feather.
But war-paint shows the streaks of weather;
War yet shall be, but the warriors
Are now but operatives; War's made
Less grand than Peace,
And a singe runs through lace and feather.
"A Utilitarian View Of The Monitor's Fight" by Herman Melville
"Yes, operations are so dear,
But it's your comfort and your cheer
To know your job's so steady here."
These are his words; so meek and mild,
He looks just like a simple child . . .
Go! darn it! Suddenly I'm riled.
But it's your comfort and your cheer
To know your job's so steady here."
These are his words; so meek and mild,
He looks just like a simple child . . .
Go! darn it! Suddenly I'm riled.
"The Key Of The Street" by Robert W Service
In news:
I was Strategic Discovery's chief operating officer responsible for e-discovery operations.
Anna's Taquerias, Operations Manager Director Ward Ganger discussing daily operations with workers at the Cambridge Grill.
A Company, 15th Sustainment Brigade keeps communications operational at Contingency Operating Location Q West.in Iraq.
The states will work closely to identify manufacturers who operate sweatshops elsewhere and try to move their operations, said the New Jersey Labor Commissioner, Peter Calderone.
Unlike the bench-top operation, in which the operator applied adhesive to one syringe at a time, the syringe manufacturer now needed a system capable of making 10 deposits at once.
The company whose permit to operate Thistledown was approved by the Ohio State Racing Commission Aug 22 indicated the planned video lottery terminal operation at the racetrack won't be temporary.
View full size Dr Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski checks the operating room lights with some of the staff before an operation.
You'll experience demonstrations in blacksmithing, binding grain, threshing , sawmill operations as well as operational tractors and steam engines.
The screed operator knows the intricacies of the paving operation, and the work doesn't start until he says "go".
Manual gauging operations, especially on large, remote tanks, has always been a challenge for operators.
Webb has 30 years of experience in emergency services, including 21 years as operations supervisor for Rural/Metro's Blount County operations.
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System resumed operations at 10:18 am local time on Jan 17 after crews at Pump Station 1 successfully installed a 157-ft bypass pipeline TAPS operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.
CRSA operates as a leading provider of trans-Pacific end-to-end transportation management and supply chain services for Canadian retailers, and TCTL operates a Canadian network of off-dock import/export container terminal facilities.
Greg Kelly named global chief operating officer and Clifford Eby named president of Parsons Brinckerhoff's Americas Transportation operating company.
Custom operators who also serve as feed suppliers was the topic at the January 26 panel discussion of the Wisconsin Custom Operators Symposium held at the Wisconsin Dells.
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In science:
In section 4, under some compatibility conditions between the operator A and the subspaces S and T , we define a bilateral shorted operator A/(S , T ) ∈ L(H1 , H2 ), and we study the usual properties of a shorting operation.
Bilateral Shorted Operators and Parallel Sums
For t = 0, the tensor operator At is just the number operator, for t = 1, it is the operator of total spin, etc.
The Two-Body Random Ensemble in Nuclei
It is obvious that the commutator [T (s), T (t)] differs from zero and does not lie in the linear space spanned by the operators T . A recoupling of the operators shows, in fact, that the commutator is a sum of three–body operators.
The Two-Body Random Ensemble in Nuclei
Two types of Wick contractions occur: (a) Those where contractions connect pairs of operators separately within the group of the first four and of the second four operators, and (b) those where at least two operators of the first group of four are contracted with the same number of operators of the second group.
The Two-Body Random Ensemble in Nuclei
To facilitate this, we first reformulate classical mechanics, representing classical observables on phase space by hermitian operators on Hilbert space , and in particular representing the Liouville density by a quasidensity operator [7, 8, 5] (the Groenewold operator).
Semiquantum versus semiclassical mechanics for simple nonlinear systems
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