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aerator

aerator \aerator\, Aerator \A"["e]r*a`tor\, n.

  1. That which supplies with air or gas; specif.:

    1. An apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

    2. A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungi and insects.

  2. an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage).

Wiktionary
aerator

n. 1 A device which mixes air with a substance, particularly soil or a liquid. 2 A device used for charge mineral waters with gas and in making soda water. 3 A fumigator used to bleach grain, destroying fungus and insects.

WordNet
aerator

n. an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage)

Wikipedia
Aerator

Aerators are various devices used for aeration, or mixing air with another substance, such as soil or water. These devices are used to add oxygen to the water.

Aerator may also refer to:

  • Floating surface aerators, used in aerated lagoons
  • Faucet aerator
  • Lawn aerator
  • Pond or lake aerator, used in water aeration
  • Wine aerator

Usage examples of "aerator".

The plastic aerator valves, surgically stitched in his chest, pulled and twisted and seemed to tear with each lurch of his body.

But what if he lost his lungs, became a servant of the small aerator for the rest of his days?

He kept the aerator as low as possible, to make himself breathe great gasps that hurt his chest, but it made him dizzy, and he had to increase the oxygenation lest he faint.

He adjusted his aerator more comfortably and climbed into the waiting truck.

She chose breath over sight and grabbed the aerator, quenching her agonized lungs even as the high-tech optics were torn off her head, turning everything black.

She was surrounded by subtle noises: the bangs and whirrs of fans and pumps, the bubbling of aerators.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

As soon as the tenting of Nirgal Vallis was done, Separation de L’Atmosphere set up some of their largest mesocosm aerators, and soon the tent was filled with 500 millibars of a nitrogen-oxygen-argon mix that had been pulled and filtered out of the ambient air, now at 240 millibars.

Now there were hundreds of people in those two linked canyons, outfitting the aerators and working up soils, and seeding and planting the nascent biosphere of the canyons’ mesocosm.

As soon as the tenting of Nirgal Vallis was done, Separation de L'Atmosphere set up some of their largest mesocosm aerators, and soon the tent was filled with 500 millibars of a nitrogen-oxygen-argon mix that had been pulled and filtered out of the ambient air, now at 240 millibars.

Now there were hundreds of people in those two linked canyons, outfitting the aerators and working up soils, and seeding and planting the nascent biosphere of the canyons' mesocosm.

His ears picked up the sound of motors and bubbling aerators, further convincing him that his fish nursery theory was correct.

Around her the saline aquaria made a continuous hiss as bubbles oozed from the pumice blocks at the ends of the aerator tubes.