Noun

(en noun)

One who writes computer programs; a software developer.

One who decides which programs will be shown on a television station, or which songs will be played on a radio station.

A device that installs a software program into some other machine.

* 1999 , Peter Spasov, Microcontroller technology, the 68HC11?

The EPROM programmer burns the data into the EPROM chip. When programming is completed, remove the EPROM chip and plug it into the circuit...

A short film feature as part of a longer film program, a "B-movie" (now rare)

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.