Definitions for generator

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generator gen·er·a·tor

Spelling: [jen-uh-rey-ter]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər/

Generator is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in generator (aeegnorrt).

Definitions for generator

noun

1. a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
2. a person or thing that generates.
3. Chemistry. an apparatus for producing a gas or vapor.
4. 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.
5. Computers. a program that produces a particular type of output on demand, as random numbers, an application program, or a report.

Origin of generator

1640-50; Latin generātor producer, equivalent to generā(re) (see generate) + -tor -tor

Examples for generator

Like most of the business owners in Damascus, Fady depends on a generator.

In others the generator and battery, in emergency, may both provide current.

Running on power from a generator, it is constantly mortared and is a frequent target of airstrikes.

So, months after it was handed over in a triumphant ribbon-cutting ceremony, the generator was broken.

Last year Tom Sachs brought a generator to "dig a hole to China."

Solinski won't know we have a generator until we turn on the power.

A steady low hum will be heard when the generator is in operation.

If you can hold your hand on the various parts of the generator, the temperature is safe.

It is often difficult to determine what charging current should be delivered by the generator.

“Sometimes it takes 30 minutes, sometimes five minutes, for the generator to restart and the power to come back on,” he told me.