ejector
a person or thing that ejects.
(in a firearm or gun) the mechanism that after firing throws out the empty cartridge or shell.
Also called eductor. a device for inducing a flow of a fluid from a chamber or vessel by using the pressure of a jet of water, air, steam, etc., to create a partial vacuum in such a way as to entrain the fluid to be removed.
any of various devices for removing work from a machine or die.
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How to use ejector in a sentence
The touch-free dirt ejector will dispense with mess, without soiling your own paws.
Military pilots face similar risks and, for them, the greatest safety advance was the ejector seat.
Kelsey takes that riff further: "The show will be our ejector seat, our launch pad, our final disappearing act."
Bernadette Corporation: Mutating Art Collective Succeeds in the Avant Garde | Blake Gopnik | September 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMoreover, the disc covers the hole until the parachute is actually open, thereby making ejector action doubly impossible.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. CorbinTherefore, from the first instant it begins to grip the air and the ejector action never gets a chance to commence.
The Romance of War Inventions | Thomas W. Corbin
The suction pipe of the ejector is only two and a half inches in diameter, the steam pipe one inch in diameter.
In the latter there is already a fired case (p), which will be driven by the fired case (q) beyond the ejector spring R.
Ejection is effected by means of an ejector projecting into the path of the fired case.
British Dictionary definitions for ejector
/ (ɪˈdʒɛktə) /
a person or thing that ejects
the mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty cartridge or shell after firing
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