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reproˈducer|riː-|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which reproduces.
1774Burke Amer. Tax. Wks. 1792 I. 565 You understand..that I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer of this fatal scheme. 1841Gladstone State in Rel. Ch. iv. §100 (ed. 4), Not as a creator, or an inventor, or even a reproducer, of a system. 1876Contemp. Rev. XXVII. 968 A timid, dependent, incoherent reproducer, whose plagiarisms his old pupil amused himself by detecting.
2. spec. In the phonograph, the part by which the sound is reproduced. Also, any device for reproducing recorded sound.
1888Nature 29 Nov. 108/1 Consequently, there are two diaphragms, one a recorder and the other a reproducer. 1899T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 191/3 The price of the Universal Graphophone, with a long run clockwork motor recorder, reproducer, hearing, speaking tubes and horn, is $50. 1937Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture Engineers XXIX. 218 With a high-quality microphone, a high-quality reproducer, and a suitably corrected amplifier, the response curve can be made uniform. 1961G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 169 The console includes a tape reproducer with 7½{pp}, 15{pp} and 30{pp} speeds. 1978Gramophone Aug. 399/3 The Stanton 681EEE, which continues in production, is already a very fine reproducer.
3. Computers. A machine for making copies of punched cards or tape.
1940W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods ii. 20 The High Speed Reproducer. This machine is used to transfer information from one card to another. 1949[see interpreter 5 a]. 1964F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers vi. 100 A machine called a reproducer..automatically reproduces the information in a pack of old cards into new ones. 1970A. Chandor et al. Dict. Computers 291 Paper tape reproducer... Also known as a reperforator. |