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noun

Generator n.

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.

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

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

(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

... very time when they should have plenty of money, to get road bed and equipment in perfect shape for to-morrow's rush. No, the nation would do no better if it had the roads. Congress doesn't think ahead two years. It is a reflector, not a generator. The fault is ours. ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... rides out—no dodging is permitted—and the moment the malicious fiend of an orderly officer gets clear of the barracks he gives the word "Trot!" Six miles of it without a break is the set allowance; and it beats vinegar, pickles, tea smoked in a tobacco-pipe, or any other nostrum, as an effectual generator of sobriety. Six miles at the full trot without stirrups on a rough horse I can conscientiously recommend to the inebriated gentleman who fears to encounter a justly irate wife at two in the morning. I wont answer for the integrity ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... the sentiment which underlay this worship of fire? I think that the facts quoted, and especially the words of Father de Leon, leave no doubt about it. Fire was worshiped as the life-giver, the active generator, of animate existence. This idea was by no means peculiar to them. It repeatedly recurs in Sanskrit, in Greek and in Teutonic mythology, as has been ably pointed out by Dr. Hermann Cohen.[45-[]] The fire-god Agni (ignis) is in ...

— Nagualism - A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History • Daniel G. Brinton

... But, out in New York while I have been away, a fellow-student of mine—just a boy,—has found out the means of 'creating energy from some unknown source'—that is, unknown to the scientists of rule-and-line. They call his electric apparatus 'an atmospheric generator.' Naturally this implies that the atmosphere has something to 'generate' which has till now remained hidden and undeveloped. I knew this long ago. Had I NOT known it I could not have thought out the secret ...

— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli

... had been perfected during Tom's Cosmic Astronauts adventure, in defense against an Oriental enemy's jamming-wave generator. Bud found it in the locker, dragged it out joyfully, and plugged it ...

— Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung • Victor Appleton

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