exchanger

English

Etymology

exchange +‎ -er

Noun

exchanger (plural exchangers)

1. A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
   • 1950 December, E. M. Patterson, “An Ulster Round Trip”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:

     Over the stretch of single line track to Ballymena, the fireman had a busy time, dividing his attention between the fire and the acrobatics necessitated by loading and unloading the automatic tablet exchanger as we sped through the sections.

   1. (biochemistry) An antiporter.

Derived terms

• heat exchanger
• nonexchanger