extractor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɹæktə/
- Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Noun edit
extractor (plural extractors)
- Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
- (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
- A centrifugal drying machine.
- (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
- (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
- A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.
Derived terms edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French extracteur.
Noun edit
extractor n (plural extractori)
Declension edit
Declension of extractor
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) extractor | extractorul | (niște) extractori | extractorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) extractor | extractorului | (unor) extractori | extractorilor |
vocative | extractorule | extractorilor |
Spanish edit
Adjective edit
extractor (feminine extractora, masculine plural extractores, feminine plural extractoras)
Noun edit
extractor m (plural extractores)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “extractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “extractor” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.