Usually means: Device that predicts or foresees events.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word anticipator:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. anticipator: Merriam-Webster
  2. anticipator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anticipator: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anticipator: Vocabulary.com
  5. anticipator: Wordnik
  6. anticipator: Wiktionary
  7. Anticipator, anticipator: Dictionary.com
  8. Anticipator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. anticipator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. anticipator: Rhymezone
  11. Anticipator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. anticipator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. anticipator: FreeDictionary.org
  14. anticipator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Anticipator: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticipator: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticipator: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anticipator)

▸ noun:  One who anticipates.
▸ noun:  A device in a thermostat that determines when to turn on or shut off the heating or cooling mechanism.

Similar:
anticipant, predictor, predicter, preëmptor, anticipativeness, forethinker, forethought, premonitor, antedate, presager, more...

Opposite:
retroactive, reactionary, unprepared, surprised, unexpecting

Types:
mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, electromagnetic, more...

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Similar:
anticipant, predictor, predicter, preëmptor, anticipativeness, forethinker, forethought, premonitor, antedate, presager, more...

Opposite:
retroactive, reactionary, unprepared, surprised, unexpecting

Types:
mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, electromagnetic, more...



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