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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•a•tor /ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Electricitya machine that converts one form of energy into another, esp. mechanical energy into electrical energy:a car's generator.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gen•er•a•tor ( jen′ə rā′tər),USA pronunciation n. - Electricitya machine that converts one form of energy into another, esp. mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
- a person or thing that generates.
- Chemistryan 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.
- Computinga program that produces a particular type of output on demand, as random numbers, an application program, or a report.
- Latin generātor producer, equivalent. to generā(re) (see generate) + -tor -tor
- 1640–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: generator /ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtə/ n - 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
- an apparatus for producing a gas
- a person or thing that generates
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