Definition of Generator

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Generator

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

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.

The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.

Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.

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Generator Quotations

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
Dave Barry

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.
Phil Gramm

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
Colin Greenwood

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.
David Deutsch

Generator Translations

generator in German is Generator, Stomerzeuger, Stromerzeuger
generator in Italian is generatore
generator in Spanish is generador

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