generator

See also: generátor and Generator

English

Etymology

From Latin, from past participle of genero (“beget, father”)

Noun

generator (plural generators)

1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
   1. (chemistry) 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. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
   3. (mathematics) 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.
   4. (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
   5. (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
2. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
   1. Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Antonyms

• (one which generates): extinguisher

Derived terms

• steam generator
• wind generator

Translations

mathematics: an element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group

• Finnish: virittäjä (fi)
• Greek: γεννήτορας (el) m (gennítoras)

• Icelandic: spönnuður m

apparatus: electrical generator

• Bulgarian: генератор m (generator)
• Catalan: generador m
• Esperanto: generatoro (eo), generilo
• Estonian: elektrigeneraator
• Finnish: generaattori (fi)
• French: générateur (fr) m, générateur électrique m
• Galician: xerador m
• Georgian: გენერატორი (generaṭori)
• German: Generator (de)
• Greek: γεννήτρια (el) f (gennítria)
• Hungarian: generátor (hu)
• Italian: generatore (it) m
• Japanese: 発電機 (hatsudenki)
• Macedonian: генера́тор m (generátor)
• Malay: penjana

• Maori: mīhini-huri-hiko
• Navajo: atsiniltłʼish álʼį́
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: generator m

  Nynorsk: generator m

• Polish: prądnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: gerador (pt) m
• Romanian: generator (ro) m
• Russian: генера́тор (ru) m (generátor)
• Spanish: generador (es) m, generador eléctrico m
• Swahili: jenereta (sw)
• Swedish: generator (sv) c
• Thai: เครื่องกำเนิดไฟฟ้า (th), เครื่องปั่นไฟ (th)
• Turkish: jeneratör (tr)
• Welsh: generadur m

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Latin

Verb

generātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of generō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of generō

References

• generator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• generator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorer, definite plural generatorene)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin generare

Noun

generator m (definite singular generatoren, indefinite plural generatorar, definite plural generatorane)

1. a generator

Derived terms

• vindgenerator

References

• “generator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.