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Webster 1913 Edition


Extractor

Ex-tract′or

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Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, extracts
; as:
(a)
(Surg.)
A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
(b)
(Breech-loading Firearms)
A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

Webster 1828 Edition


Extractor

EXTRACT'OR

,
Noun.
In midwifery, a forceps or instrument for extracting children.

Definition 2024


extractor

extractor

English

Noun

extractor (plural extractors)

  1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
    1. A machine for clearing combs of honey.
    2. A device for rendering wax.
  2. (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
  3. A centrifugal drying machine.
  4. (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
  5. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
  6. 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.

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Spanish

Adjective

extractor m (feminine singular extractora, masculine plural extractores, feminine plural extractoras)

  1. extracting