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Grammar : Noun
Spell : jen-uh-rey-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər



Définition of generators

Origin :
  • 1640s, "person or thing that generates," from Latin generator "a begetter, producer," agent noun from past participle stem of generare (see generation). Meaning "machine that generates power" first recorded 1794; in sense of "machine that generates electric energy," 1879. Fem. generatrix attested from 1650s.
  • noun engine converting energy
Example sentences :
  • Mado laughed as he started the generators of the propelling energy.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • The reflectors were still in place, but the bank of generators had been removed.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
  • Stand by for further communications, and—are your generators working?
  • Extract from : « The Terror from the Depths » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • We were within a few feet of the driving gear of one of the generators.
  • Extract from : « The Winged Men of Orcon » by David R. Sparks
  • The armor is all stripped off the suits, and the generators and the other apparatus are all shot.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • And I for one believe it, for he sucked the power from our generators.
  • Extract from : « Invaders from the Infinite » by John Wood Campbell
  • Manufacturers of generators, vision-tape instructors and allied lines.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
  • "Both turned up," he yelled over the roar of the generators.
  • Extract from : « Out Around Rigel » by Robert H. Wilson
  • Motors are rated by horsepower, and generators are rated by kilowatts.
  • Extract from : « Electricity for the farm » by Frederick Irving Anderson
  • These values are 56, 55, which generators give the last triangle.
  • Extract from : « The Canterbury Puzzles » by Henry Ernest Dudeney

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