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noun
Generator  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
2.
An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
3.
(Mus.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; called also generating tone.
4.
(Elec.) Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.
5.
(Math.) A mathematical entity which, when subjected to an operation, yields another mathematical entity; also, a generatrix.





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"Generator" Quotes from Famous Books



... were drained in a single tremendous surge and the auxiliary generator started. It in turn awoke to life the other power plants, to leave them sleeping, idling, but ready for instant use to develop power such as man never before had dreamed of holding and molding to ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
... name, in chronological order, the events that have been instrumental in bringing about the degradation of labor. There is the primal generator of universal distress—the private corporation—which operates with all the functions of an individual, yet is free from even the most ordinary obligations that are enforced upon the individual; from the private corporation has sprung the Trust, a consolidation of corporate bodies which ...
— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams


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