In UML class diagrams, are there specific differences between operations and constructors?

Question

I take a course in data analysis, we study UML class diagrams. I am embarrassed by the terminology of methods (operations) and constructors. What is the difference between a method and a constructor? Any explanation would be very useful, the light bulb for this is just not yet lit and hopes that some external perspectives will help. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Some of the confusion has historical reasons when terms were only partially defined (or were not at all). The current UML 2.5 specification defines on p. 114

9.6.3.1 Operations

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