operatorとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪɾɚ/
• ハイフネーション: op‧er‧ator

名詞

operator (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 operators)

1. One who operates.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
4. (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
6. (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

     Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
     Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.

7. A member of a military special operations unit.
8. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
9. (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
10. (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.

下位語

関連する語

参照

• operator on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• aeroport, aëroport, poor rate

Latin

語源

operor +‎ -tor.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.peˈraː.tor/, [ɔpɛˈräːt̪ɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.peˈra.tor/, [opeˈräːt̪or]

名詞

operātor m (genitive operātōris); third declension

1. worker, operator

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

動詞

operātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of operor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of operor

参照

• operator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• operator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• operator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette