generator
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
Other meanings
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 etc.
The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
A kind of
- apparatus
Related words
- aerogenerator
- character generator
- chemical oxygen generator
- clock generator
- cogenerator
- diesel generator
- Marx generator
- economic scenario generator
- starch generator
- finite generator
- function generator
- gas generator
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This definition is adapted from “generator” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.