generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: generators
Etymology: From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”), equivalent to generate + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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 etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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 tone.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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 relators.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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 spaces.
examples: text: When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]
ref: 2016, Paul Barry, Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 508:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: 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 request.
synonyms: semicoroutine
glosses: A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
examples: text: Heating in the passenger sections is by electricity obtained from the main generator. When heating is dictated by the operation of a thermostat in the roof of the motor coach, engine idling speed is 600 r.p.m. instead of the normal 450 r.p.m. in order to produce a high enough generator voltage output at rest.
ref: 1962 December 23, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:
text: Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.
ref: 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: WIND
Since 2001, Taipower has installed eight wind-powered generators on Penghu, and in 2004 the main island's first commercial wind farm — located in Shihmen Township, Taipei County, and built by Taipower — went online.
ref: 2010, Taiwan: Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook, International Business Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: aerogenerator
character generator
chemical oxygen generator
clock generator
cogenerator
diesel generator
economic scenario generator
engine generator
engine-generator
finite generator
function generator
gas generator
hydroelectric generator
Kipp generator
linear congruential generator
Marx generator
microgenerator
nanogenerator
pseudorandom number generator
pseudo-random number generator
random number generator
starch generator
steam generator
traffic generator
turbogenerator
turbo-generator
Van de Graaff generator
vortex generator
wind generator