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Erector

Erector \E*rec"tor\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, erects.

  2. (Anat.) A muscle which raises any part.

  3. (Physics) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
erector

1530s, "one who builds," agent noun in Latin form from erect (v.). In reference to muscles from 1831. The children's buildig kit Erector (commonly known as an Erector set) was sold from 1913.

Wiktionary
erector

alt. 1 A person who, or a device which erects. 2 (context anatomy English) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect. 3 An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted. 4 (context astronautics English) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold. n. 1 A person who, or a device which erects. 2 (context anatomy English) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect. 3 An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted. 4 (context astronautics English) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.

Wikipedia
Erector (Transformers)

Erector is a fictional character in the Transformers series introduced in 1989. He was nominated as a fan's choice for the Transformers Hall of Fame in 2011. He is sometimes called "Autobot Erector" for trademark purposes by Hasbro, and is called Cragun in Japan.

Erector (album)

Erector is the third full-length studio album by power electronics band Whitehouse, released in February 1981 through Come Organization. The record was reissued twice: once in 1995 on CD through Susan Lawly, and again in 2008 on vinyl through Very Friendly.

Usage examples of "erector".

He had always wanted an Erector set, but his parents, believers in as the twig is bent so grows the tree, had refused to buy him one.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

It came to an easy stop in front of the skeletal remains of the main house, now a broken erector set of burned timbers and piles of wet, dirty ash.

And then, after Rafe had finally succeeded in building a small, rather shaky fort with his own erector set, Selby had used his catapult to knock down the walls.

Even the erector pili muscle and the sudoriparous gland are often found.

But now all those untouched model airplanes and games and balls and elaborate Erector sets were disquieting indications that his interior fantasy life had been richer than any entertainment that could be provided by Tonka, Mattel, or Lionel.

Once at a site, they came together like a giant Erector set, clipped together over concrete slabs and preassembled metal frames.

Iraq also built 8 indigenous mobile erector launchers and 28 fixed erector-launchers to supplement the Soviet TELs.

They could have sold a million "Babyfaces," a tragi-comic figure consisting of a sweet-faced babydoll head, with a damaged eye, and all its hair ripped out to the roots, jammed onto a spider body made out of Erector Set parts.

Although her hull was slender with its old-fashioned straight-up-and-down bow and graceful champagne-glass stern, her superstructure had the look of a child's erector set gone wild.

The number of gigantic architectonic edifices and the number of artistically dressed boulders we can still marvel at today can only be plausibly explained if we assume the primitive erectors of these works to have been giants or beings with techniques unknown to us.

Upstairs she found Duncan in his room among Erector Set machines he had built when he was twelve, a full-color poster of Princess Pet in the Land of the Ice Cream Star, the Monopoly board in which all seven cousins had played a thirty-eight-hour world series in the spring of 1944.

They had used the motor from an advanced kid's erector set, with self-contained power unit.