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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; 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.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; 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.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.; A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.
- When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]
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A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
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A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.; Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
- WIND Since 2001, Taipower has installed eight wind-powered generators on Penghu, and in 2004 the main island's first commercial wind farm — located in Shihmen Township, Taipei County, and built by Taipower — went online.
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