Operator

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