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  • noun A lever, key or device installed in a operant chamber, upon which the "subject" exerts its responses. Sometimes referred to as a manipulandum. In the prototypical operant conditioning experiment, a rat (the subject) presses upon a lever (the operandum) which triggers the delivery of food (the reward or reinforcer).

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Examples

  • She created a body of work that has lasted, not as fiction, but as a real modus operandum.

    Mike Bonifer: Why Ayn Rand Does Not Matter (and Viola Spolin Does) 2009

  • I decided that that was not going to be a place that I was going to go to, which is generally my modus operandum (sic) is to bury any kind of feeling I have in my music and I just kept journals and journals and journals and wrote a lot and as I'm getting that through -- a lot of lyrics in there.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006 2006

  • I decided that that was not going to be a place that I was going to go to, which is generally my modus operandum (sic) is to bury any kind of feeling I have in my music and I just kept journals and journals and journals and wrote a lot and as I'm getting that through -- a lot of lyrics in there.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2006 2006

  • I decided that that was not going to be a place that I was going to go to, which is generally my modus operandum (sic) is to bury any kind of feeling I have in my music and I just kept journals and journals and journals and wrote a lot and as I'm getting that through -- a lot of lyrics in there.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006 2006

  • * Nemo quisquam hominum sive ad cogitandum, sive ad operandum quodcunque bonum potest esse idoneus; nisi qui fuerit munere gratuito divinae opitulationis adjutus; ab ipso namque est initium bonae voluntatis, ab ipso facultas boni operis, ab ipso perseveantia bonae conversationis.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Vere iusti in perpetuum uiuunt; cum quibus beatus Queranus corregnat, cuius sepulchri terra uel puluis mare sedauit [cedauit MSS.], corda trepidancium in fide solidauit, et ad bonum operandum irrigauit.

    The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

  • Scriptures a matter of form or routine; a thing which _must_ be done, as an _opus operandum_, wherever there is a chance.

    To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880

  • The Crane Wife 'revealed a band whose modus operandum had to be taken seriously, then their latest epic journey' The Hazards Of Love 'is clearly the sound of a band exercising their craft on another level entirely.

    ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News 2009

  • Aut operandum aliquo in celebri cum aequalibu 'faao.

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

  • Pars Affertionis, prima iaiti conftituta, ftatim pa~ tet quia cum Potentia Vifiua fit Grganica, ideft, per talem paifionem partis iibi correipondentis ia Corppre, determinanda ad operandum, & habeat pro fine proxi - mo apprehenfionem diftin&am Viiibilium; non poteft non illi correfpondere, vt proprium Organum illa Pars, cuius folius in.

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

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