Meaning

8 senses
  1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

    An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.

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

  3. An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.

  4. An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.

  5. One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.

  6. A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.

    генера́торgenerátor

  7. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.

    Generator

    генера́торgenerátor

    генера́торhenerátor

  8. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.

    Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

    engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction

Examples

43 sentences
  1. Do you have a generator?

    У тебе є генератор?

    ruУ вас есть генератор?

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  2. Our generator has just quit working.

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  3. The power is out, but we have a generator.

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  4. We only use this generator when there is a power outage.

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  5. Tom has a generator.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
apparatus: electrical generator:
Русский
By meaning 1
in programming:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
apparatus: electrical generator:

Origin

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”), equivalent to generate + -or

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”), equivalent to generate + -or.

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