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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES fast breeder reactor COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE fast ▪ The largest fast breeder reactor in the world is the Superphenix plant at Creys-Malville on the French/Swiss border. ▪ More recently, the demand for fast ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "one who produces or originates," agent noun from breed (v.). Meaning "one who breeds cattle" or some other animal is recorded from 1530s. Of nuclear reactors, from 1948. As a scornful homosexual term for "heterosexual person," attested from 1986.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In cellular automata such as Conway's Game of Life , a breeder is a pattern that exhibits quadratic growth , by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
Usage examples of breeder.
The breeders were most astute in maintaining their monopoly of the fabulous and fabulously expensive animals, for they sold but few and then only geldings.
In order that the breeder pile continue to operate it was imperative that each atom split by a neutron from the beryllium target should cause the splitting of many more.
It is certain that several of our eminent breeders have, even within a single lifetime, modified to a large extent some breeds of cattle and sheep.
While no pyrogenic species are to be found in the British Isles, despite many attempts on the part of our breeders to induce this most valuable trait, so deadly to our shipping in the persons of the French Flamme-de-Gloire and the Spanish Flecha-del-Fuego, the native Sharpspitter breed is notable for producing a venom to incapacitate its prey.
He had been querying breeders about their stocks - he did not want to buy Africans by accident.
Meetings of confreries, as possible breeders of trouble, and all public assemblies except for attendance at church were forbidden.
I talked fast, knowing that that and my flatlander accent would make me incomprehensible to any breeder who might be listening.
He bought a huge chunk of Petit Jean Mountain, about fifty miles west of Little Rock, became a successful breeder of Santa Gertrudis cattle, and married his second wife, Jeannette.
Brennan is a breeder and trainer of Lipizzan horses who lives near Tucson, Arizona.
At night, gliding down the golden moonpath, the breeder stopped trying to understand and let the clairvoyance of his feelings displace his wondering.
Though Ennadon claimed it was from his home stables, Patwin and the others knew the truth, and told Richius that Ennadon had purchased the gelding with his own gold from a horse breeder he knew.
I draw deep on the tube and the Sikkimese dope sets up a breeder reaction in my brain.
The slums are C3 breeders, and verminous into the bargain, and anything we can do to abate this nuisance, I, for one, should be happy to do.
No matter where Abbie went, she was there: in the stands, on the showgrounds, or at the elaborately decorated stalls of the major horse breeders.
Song of Change had been sung, the newly graduated Breeders had been congratulated by the parents, children, Protectors, and Nurturers, and the herd had split back up into individual family groups for perhaps their last private time together before the Breeders struck off on their own.