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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Generator \Gen"er*a`tor\, n. (Elec.) Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Generator \Gen"er*a`tor\, n. [L.] 1. One who or that which generates, begets, causes, or produces. 2. 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 3. (Mus.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also {generating tone}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: generator n 1: an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas 2: converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction 3: someone who originates or causes or initiates something "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: {source}, {author}] 4: an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
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