(US) A small business that produces homemade foods and is partially exempt from the regulations governing larger commercial food operations.

plural of cottage food operation

plural of operational taxonomic unit

(programming) An operator specifying a range of conditions, such that the related code executes only if the first condition is true, and only until the second condition becomes true.

plural of flip-flop operator

plural of Laplace-Beltrami operator

plural of token-pasting operator

(programming) The operator ## in the C or C++ preprocessor, which permits separate tokens to be joined into a single token.

plural of safe navigation operator

(programming) A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code that would otherwise need multiple explicit checks for nullity.