Crossword clues for igniter
igniter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
igniter \igniter\ n.
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a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire.
Syn: ignitor, lighter.
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a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires.
Syn: lighter, light, ignitor.
Ignitor \Ig*nit"or\, n. One who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
Wiktionary
n. Any device that is used to ignite something, especially a fuel mixture, or a charge of explosive
WordNet
Usage examples of "igniter".
I had when I had made my original survey of the rooms, I lifted them from each drawer to see if there was not a steel, igniter, or syringe of amadou beneath them.
Each of the six igniters then caused its pie-shaped trinitrotoluene charge to detonate.
Investigations into the relative efficiency of gasoline and denatured alcohol as power producers, undertaken in connection with work for the Navy Department, have demonstrated that with proper manipulation of the carburetters, igniters, degree of compression, etc.
He arranged his fireset, then struck a quick blow to the end of a piston igniter.
Renny got a chute flare out of a rack, wrenched the sliding window back, twisted the flare igniter and tossed it out.
In the main stage of the Jupiter rocket, a Primacord igniter rope ran the length of the missile.
I placed the igniter on a small stone held in my hand, tapped it with the base of the knife, held the fuse long enough to feel the sudden warmth of the ignited powder train through its braided cover, then left at once.
From his kit-bag Smith extracted two packets of plastic explosives and wedged them firmly between the roof of the car and the two after arms of the suspension bracket, making sure that the tear strip igniters were exposed and ready to hand.
They thought I couldn't start a fire without an igniter, but if you have electricity in the wall sockets, it's easy.