Operands

[Little_Girl]

a number or quantity that has something done to it in a calculation. For example, in 7 y, 7 and y are the operands.

[Guest]

@Little_Girl How incompetemt!

this is quite ignorant and wrong!

You are not doing anything to operands in a calculation! you're operating on them before to determine calculation!
The operator works with the numbers to set up the operation, and then the calculations are performed based on that setup without directly operating on the numbers during the execution phase.