generator
/ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another; A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.; Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy
- plural
- generators
Meanings
- 1
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another
What happened to the generator?
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Do you have a generator?
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- 2
A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.; Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy
- 3
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etcrare
- 4
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tonerare
- 5
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scalesrare
- 6
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relatorsrare
- 7
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spacesrare
- 8
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on requestrare