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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics and physics , the term generator or generating set may refer to any of a number of related concepts. The underlying concept in each case is that of a smaller set of objects, together with a set of operations that can be applied to it, that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "person or thing that generates," from Latin generator "a begetter, producer," agent noun from past participle stem of generare (see generation ). Meaning "machine that generates power" first recorded 1794; in sense of "machine that generates electric ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Generator \Gen"er*a`tor\, n. [L.] One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces. An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating ...
Usage examples of generator.
The area was adazzle with all of the floodlights working and the generator throbbed away out of sight somewhere.
He could hear the sound of portable generators running, and there were also lights on in the admin building, across the tracks from where he was parked.
One of the turbine generators and one of the main engines aft was shut down to minimize radiated noise.
By the time he finally lifted from the pad the fusion generator was operating alarmingly close to maximum capacity.
He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.
The generators of the mighty battleship roared louder and louder as the mysterious apparatus sucked unimaginable amperage from them.
Faraday generator and supported internal circulating currents of five million amperes with a power dissipation of a thousand billion watts.
It now appears that the unheard-of currents, amounting to millions of amperes, which flowed momentarily in the windings of our generator must have produced a certain extension into four dimensions, for a fraction of a second and in a 7volume large enough to contain a man.
There is a major spike in the lower frequencies, almost like the power absorption curve of a biaxial shield generator.
I would surmise the presence of a class-B jamming field of an unknown and extremely sophisticated design, probably controlled by a biaxial shield generator as Mr.
The Mote engineers made two widgets do one job, all right, but the second widget does two other jobs, and some of the supports are also bimetallic thermostats and thermoelectric generators all in one.
Zigzagging to avoid large stars which could disrupt a blink generator and send a ship and its contents into limbo for eternity, the ship blinked and rested, bunked and rested, traveling the Orion Arm in seven-league boots, covering distances which strained the imagination in an instant, held back only by the need to rest, to recharge, to build for the next jump.
At first the power signal of simultaneous blinks by two thousand generators raised alarms.
When the Titcher take our planet, they will gain access to the bosons already generated and the boson generator.
We know only what you now know: that a group of Bothans helped agents of Senator Palpatine gain access to the Caamas shield generators.