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generator
[ jen-uh-rey-ter ]
noun
- a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- a person or thing that generates.
- Chemistry. an apparatus for producing a gas or vapor.
- Mathematics.
- an element or one of a set of elements from which a specified mathematical object can be formed by applying certain operations.
- an element, as a line, that generates a figure.
- Computers. a program that produces a particular type of output on demand, as random numbers, an application program, or a report.
generator
/ ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtə /
noun
- physics
- any device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction, esp a large one as in a power station
- a device for producing a voltage electrostatically
- any device that converts one form of energy into another form
an acoustic generator
- an apparatus for producing a gas
- a person or thing that generates
generator
- A device that produces electric current (see also current ), usually by rotating a conductor in a magnetic field , thereby generating current through electromagnetic induction . This sort of generator produces an alternating current (AC) .
Word History and Origins
Origin of generator1
Example Sentences
YouTube was becoming a significant ad revenue generator in its own right.
Make a meme with a meme generatorThe quickest way to make a meme is to use a meme generator.
Microsoft on Thursday announced a new password generator for the recently released Edge 88.
It’s widely used in San Diego to heat homes and for cooking but it also powers a lot of the main energy generators used to create electricity for the region.
Amazon Web Services, a big profit generator for the company, has also experienced increased demand during the pandemic.
“Sometimes it takes 30 minutes, sometimes five minutes, for the generator to restart and the power to come back on,” he told me.
The Dazeem sensation arguably hit its peak with the Slate Adele Dazeem Name Generator, a widget designed to Travoltify any name.
We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words… and built our own new-genre generator.
But the economic generator theory has been debunked over the past two decades.
Running on power from a generator, it is constantly mortared and is a frequent target of airstrikes.
He applied voltage till his generator groaned, and watched in awe as meters climbed and climbed without any sign of stopping.
The generator hummed, the needles of the dials climbed, flickered, and steadied.
The generator was completed and installed on the nineteenth night.
The summer sun was hot the day the generator hummed into life.
"I didn't realize it would take such a large generator," he said after a silence.
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