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operator

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(1) A person who operates a computer in a datacenter and performs such activities as commanding the operating system, mounting disks and tapes and placing paper in the printer. Operators may also write the job control language (JCL), which schedules the daily work for the computer. See system development cycle and salary survey. See also network operator.

(2) In programming and logic, a symbol used to perform an operation on some value. See arithmetic operators and Boolean operator.

(programming)operator - A symbol used as a function, with infix syntax if it has two arguments (e.g. "+") or prefix syntax if it has only one (e.g. Boolean NOT). Many languages use operators for built-in functions such as arithmetic and logic.
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