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Webster 1913 Edition
Extractor
Ex-tract′or
,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.
Definition 2024
extractor
extractor
English
Noun
extractor (plural extractors)
- Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
- (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
- A centrifugal drying machine.
- (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
- (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
- 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.
Derived terms
Spanish
Adjective
extractor m (feminine singular extractora, masculine plural extractores, feminine plural extractoras)