Noun

(en noun)

One who operates.

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A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.

(mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.

Chinese whispers.

(informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.

A member of a military Special Operations unit.

(computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.

(linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator , binding a phonetically empty variable.

Noun

(en noun)

One who listens to a speaker in one language and relates that utterance to the audience in a different language. Contrasted with translator.

A Japanese man who is tried before a German court is assisted by an interpreter in making oral statements.

(figuratively) One who explains something, such as an art exhibit.

(computing) A program which executes another program written in a programming language other than machine code.

Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter , though some can be compiled.