Usually means: Behavior influenced by its consequences.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word operant:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. operant: Merriam-Webster
  2. operant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. operant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. operant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. operant: Vocabulary.com
  6. operant: Wordnik
  7. operant: Wiktionary
  8. operant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. operant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. operant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. operant: Dictionary.com
  12. operant (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Operant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Operant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. operant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. operant: Rhymezone
  17. Operant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. operant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. operant: FreeDictionary.org
  20. operant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. operant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. operant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. operant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. operant: Medical dictionary

(Note: See operantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (operant)

adjective:  That operates to produce an effect.
noun:  An operative person or thing.
noun:  (psychology) Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment.

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