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operator
1: one that operates: as a: one that operates a machine or device b: one that operates a business c: one that performs surgical operations d: one that deals in stocks or commodities 2 a: mountebank
, fraud b: a shrewd and skillful person who knows how to circumvent restrictions or difficulties3 a: something and especially a symbol that denotes or performs a mathematical or logical operation b: a mathematical function4: a binding site in a DNA chain at which a genetic repressor binds to inhibit the initiation of transcription of messenger RNA by one or more nearby structural genes —called also operator gene
— compare operon
— op·er·a·tor·less adjective
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