Operator meaning : One who operates. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections. A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range. The game of Chinese whispers. 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. The administrator of a channel or network on IRC. A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax. A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.