Usually means: Device that converts energy forms.
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  1. generator: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. generator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. generator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. generator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. generator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Generator, generator: Wordnik
  7. generator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. generator: Wiktionary
  9. generator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. generator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. generator: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. generator: Dictionary.com
  13. generator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Generator (Aborym album), Generator (Bad Religion album), Generator (Foo Fighters song), Generator (category theory), Generator (circuit theory), Generator (computer programming), Generator (computer science), Generator (device), Generator (disambiguation), Generator (groups), Generator (mathematics), Generator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Generator: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. generator: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. generator: Rhymezone
  18. Generator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. generator: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. generator: Free Dictionary
  21. generator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. generator: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Generator (disambiguation), generator: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Generator (disambiguation), generator: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Generator (disambiguation), generator: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Generator: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. generator, generator, generator, generator: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generator: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Generator: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. generator: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. GENERATOR: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
noun:  (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
noun:  (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
noun:  A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
noun:  Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

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