operator

A prokaryotic regulatory element that interacts with a repressor to control the transcription of adjacent structural genes.

The region of DNA that is upstream from a gene or genes and to which one or more regulatory proteins (repressor or activator) bind to control the expression of the gene(s).

A symbol, such as -, == or ?: taking one, two or three operands and yielding a result. Operators are used in both arithmetic expressions and boolean expressions.

A gizmo that transforms some number of input values to some number of output values, often built into a language with a special syntax or symbol. A given operator may have specific expectations about what types of data you give as its arguments (operands) and what type of data you want back from it.

An enterprise search user who has the authority to observe, start, and stop collection-level processes.