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macerator

n. A machine that reduces solids to small pieces.

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Macerator

Macerator may refer to:

  • Pumping station, solids maceration
  • Maceration (sewage), machine that reduces solids to small pieces
  • Chopper pumps, pump with cutting system to facilitate chopping/maceration of solids
  • Sewage pumping, where maceration of solids are used
  • Maceration (food), reduction of food into small pieces
  • Transformers: The Veiled Threat#Decepticons, book character

Usage examples of "macerator".

The purple tubes, he found, were frozen in liquid air, passed through a macerator, which pulverized the binding gums, soaked in hesso-hexylic acid, then alcohol, dried in a centrifuge, a process which left the fibres in a felt-like mat.