Music

• Operator (band)
  Operator (band)
  Operator is an American post-grunge band from Los Angeles, California, United States. The name Operator was used for a solo project created by Johnny Strong, an Actor/Musician/Martial Artist, who has appeared in movies such as Black Hawk Down , The Fast and the Furious, "Get Carter", and "The...
  
  , 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)"
  Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)
  "Operator " is a 1972 single written and recorded by Jim Croce. It was released August 23 1972 and was the second single released from his album You Don't Mess Around with Jim...
  
  , a 1972 song by Jim Croce from You Don't Mess Around with Jim
• "Operator" (Midnight Star song)
  Operator (Midnight Star song)
  "Operator" is a 1984 # 1 R&B/dance single by Midnight Star, produced by then-current bandmember Reggie Calloway. At the dawning of 1984, despite having achieved much success on the R&B chart and an extremely successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor the previous year, Midnight Star had yet to...
  
   (1984)
• "Operator (A Girl Like Me)"
  Operator (A Girl Like Me)
  Operator is the debut single by Canadian pop/rock singer Shiloh. The song is about staying true to oneself and not becoming superficial.-Chart positions:...
  
  , a 2008 song by Shiloh
• "Operator", a 1970 song by the Grateful Dead from American Beauty
  American Beauty (album)
  American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records...
  
  
• "Operator", a 1975 song by the Manhattan Transfer from The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer (album)
  The Manhattan Transfer is the second album by The Manhattan Transfer. However, it is the first of four albums to be released by the line-up of Tim Hauser, Laurel Massé, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel, and the first to establish the sound and style for which the group would become known...
  
  
• "Operator", a 1993 song by Blue System from Backstreet Dreams
• "Operator", a 1995 song by Real McCoy from Another Night

Computers

• Computer operator
  Computer operator
  A role within IT, computer operators oversee the running of computer systems, ensuring that the machines are running and physically secured. The traditional role of a computer operator was to work with mainframes which required a great deal of management day-to-day, however nowaday they often work...
  
  
• Operator (programming)
  Operator (programming)
  Programming languages typically support a set of operators: operations which differ from the language's functions in calling syntax and/or argument passing mode. Common examples that differ by syntax are mathematical arithmetic operations, e.g...
  
  , a type of computer program function
• Operator (extension)
  Operator (extension)
  Operator is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It parses and acts upon a number of microformats, as well as validating them.Operator lets the user access microformats through a number of methods, all of which are optional: a toolbar, a toolbar button, a status bar icon, a location...
  
  , an extension for the Firefox web browser, for reading microformats
• Operator YAPO or OperaTor, a portable implementation of the Opera web browser

Science and mathematics

• Operator (mathematics), a function between vector spaces
• Operator (biology)
  Operator (biology)
  In genetics, an operator is a segment of DNA to which a transcription factor protein binds. It is classically defined in the lac operon as a segment between the promoter and the genes of the operon. In the case of a repressor, the repressor protein physically obstructs the RNA polymerase from...
  
  , a segment of DNA regulating the activity of genes
• Operator (linguistics)
  Operator (linguistics)
  In linguistics, an operator is a special variety of determiner including the visible interrogatives, the quantifiers, and the hypothetical invisible pronoun denoted Op...
  
  , a special category including wh- interrogatives
• Operator (physics)
  Operator (physics)
  In physics, an operator is a function acting on the space of physical states. As a resultof its application on a physical state, another physical state is obtained, very often along withsome extra relevant information....
  
  , mathematical operators in quantum physics

Fiction

• Operator (Ghost in the Shell)
  Operator (Ghost in the Shell)
  An is a fictional class of robot in the Ghost in the Shell series. They are voiced by Eri Oono and Debra Jean Rogers.-Bio:The Operators are designed to handle various tasks within the government agency Public Security Section 9, such as operating computers, carrying equipment within the agency's...
  
  , a fictional group in the Ghost in the Shell series
• Operator (The Matrix)
  Operator (The Matrix)
  The Operator on a Zion hovercraft is the online guide and resource liaison for redpill crewmembers while they are jacked in to the Matrix, a virtual computer-generated world set in the end of the 20th Century. Each hovercraft has an Operator...
  
  , a crew position in The Matrix franchise

Other uses

• Operator (profession)
  Operator (profession)
  An operator is a professional designation used in various industries, including broadcasting , computing, customer service, physics, and construction. Operators are day-to-day end users of systems, that may or may not be mission-critical, but are typically managed and maintained by technicians or...
  
  
  • Telephone operator
    Telephone operator
    A telephone operator is either* a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller, usually in the placing of operator assisted telephone calls such as calls from a pay phone, collect calls , calls which are billed to a credit card, station-to-station and person-to-person calls, and certain...
    
    , person or company offering telephone services
• Operator (military), a soldier in a special operations force
• Network operator, a phone carrier
• Operator (sternwheeler)
  Operator (sternwheeler)
  The Operator sternwheeler was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The other four were the Conveyor, the Skeena, the Distributor and the Omineca...
  
  , an early 20th century ship on the Skeena River
• Operator Grammar
  Operator Grammar
  Operator Grammar is a mathematical theory of human language that explains how language carries information. This theory is the culmination of the life work of Zellig Harris, with major publications toward the end of the last century...
  
  , a theory of human language

See also

• Operation (disambiguation)
• Operator-precedence grammar
  Operator-precedence grammar
  An operator precedence grammar is a kind of grammar for formal languages.Technically, an operator precedence grammar is a context-free grammar that has the property...
  
  , a grammar for formal languages
• Operator No. 5
  Operator No. 5
  Operator #5 was a pulp hero that appeared in his own ten cent pulp magazine. It was soon renamed Secret Service Operator #5 and was published by Popular Publications between 1934 and 1939.-Characters:...
  
  , a pulp fiction hero from the 1930s