first officer vs operator

first officer

noun
  • The executive officer, second in command of a naval vessel. 

  • Air Transport Auxiliary rank corresponding to Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. 

  • Women's Royal Naval Service rank corresponding to Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy. 

  • The copilot of an aircraft. 

  • The chief mate of a merchant ship. 

  • The most senior civil servant in the United States Foreign Service, with responsibility for running an embassy under the authority of and reporting to the ambassador. 

operator

noun
  • A member of a military special operations unit. 

  • A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range. 

  • A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections. 

  • A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable. 

  • 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 person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods. 

  • The game of Chinese whispers. 

  • One who operates. 

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