variator

English

Noun

variator (plural variators)

1. A device that can change the parameters of something.
   • 2012, Damir T. Jelaska, Gears and Gear Drives:

     If n₂ changes are stepless, such drives are called continuous variable speed drives or variators.

Translations

device that can change parameters

• French: variateur (fr) m
• Italian: variatore m

Latin

Verb

variātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of variō

References

• variator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)