assistant vs operant

assistant

noun
  • A person who assists or helps someone else. 

  • A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program. 

  • Sales assistant. 

adj
  • Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. 

  • Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 

operant

noun
  • An operative person or thing. 

  • Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment. 

adj
  • That operates to produce an effect. 

How often have the words assistant and operant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )