Operator
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Operator may refer to:
Music
- Operator (band), an American hard rock band
- "Operator" (Motown song), a 1965 song recorded by Mary Wells and Brenda Holloway
- "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)", a 1972 song by Jim Croce from You Don't Mess Around with Jim
- "Operator" (Midnight Star song) (1984)
- "Operator (A Girl Like Me)", a 2008 song by Shiloh
- "Operator", a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead from American Beauty
- "Operator", a 1975 song by the Manhattan Transfer from The Manhattan Transfer
- "Operator", a 1993 song by Blue System from Backstreet Dreams
- "Operator", a 1995 song by Real McCoy from Another Night
Computers
- Computer operator
- Operator (computer programming), a type of computer program function
- Operator (extension), an extension for the Firefox web browser, for reading microformats
- Operator YAPO, previously OperaTor, a portable implementation of the Opera web browser
Science and mathematics
- Operator (biology), a segment of DNA regulating the activity of genes
- Operator (linguistics), a special category including wh- interrogatives
- Operator (mathematics), a function between vector spaces
- Operator (physics), mathematical operators in quantum physics
- Logical operator or logical connective
Fiction
- Operator No. 5, a pulp fiction hero from the 1930s
- Operator (Ghost in the Shell), a fictional group in the Ghost in the Shell series
- Operator (The Matrix), a crew position in The Matrix franchise
Other uses
- Operator (profession)
- Switchboard operator, a person or company offering telephone services
- Heavy equipment operator
- Operator (military), a soldier in a special operations force
- Operator (sternwheeler), an early 20th-century ship on the Skeena River
- Network operator, a phone carrier
- Operator grammar, a theory of human language
See also
- Operation (mathematics), a function that sends a collection of elements to another in order to express the latter in terms of the collection of elements and the function
- Operation (disambiguation)
- Operator-precedence grammar, a grammar for formal languages