The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reproducer \Re`pro*du"cer\ (-d?"s?r), n.
One who, or that which, reproduces.
--Burke.In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound.
In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who reproduces. 2 In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound. 3 In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale.
WordNet
n. an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound
Usage examples of "reproducer".
CONTENTS (TRANSIENT IMMOBILE NON-PERISHABLE): the latest decorations and pictures and ornaments and models of phone and TV and polyformer and holographic record reproducer and cosmoramic projector and even books - though the latter were hanging in the balance as potentially non-fashionable.
I won't tell you which of the story's three parts reproducers my real dreams or which two parts are attempts to create credible dream imagery.
Once the Rowan-mind merge distracted and destroyed the minds of the huge, female reproducers, Leviathan lost its directive force: the diverse subordinates aimlessly continued in the routines for which they had been genetically designed, movements that had become pointless.