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generator

/jen-uh-rey-ter/US // ˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər //UK // (ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtə) //

发电机,发电机组,发电器,发电设备

Related Words

dynamo发电机,发电机组,动力机,发电厂alternator发电机,交流发电机,交流器,交流电

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a machine that converts one form of energy into another, especially mechanical energy into electrical energy, as a dynamo, or electrical energy into sound, as an acoustic generator.
    • : a person or thing that generates.
    • : Chemistry. an apparatus for producing a gas or vapor.
    • : Mathematics. an element or one of a set of elements from which a specified mathematical object can be formed by applying certain operations.an element, as a line, that generates a figure.
    • : Computers. a program that produces a particular type of output on demand, as random numbers, an application program, or a report.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounengine converting energy
Forms: generators
Synonyms
alternator发电机,交流发电机,交流器,交流电dynamo发电机,发电机组,动力机,发电厂

Examples

  • YouTube was becoming a significant ad revenue generator in its own right.

  • Make a meme with a meme generatorThe quickest way to make a meme is to use a meme generator.

  • Microsoft on Thursday announced a new password generator for the recently released Edge 88.

  • It’s widely used in San Diego to heat homes and for cooking but it also powers a lot of the main energy generators used to create electricity for the region.

  • Amazon Web Services, a big profit generator for the company, has also experienced increased demand during the pandemic.

  • “Sometimes it takes 30 minutes, sometimes five minutes, for the generator to restart and the power to come back on,” he told me.

  • The Dazeem sensation arguably hit its peak with the Slate Adele Dazeem Name Generator, a widget designed to Travoltify any name.

  • We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words… and built our own new-genre generator.

  • But the economic generator theory has been debunked over the past two decades.

  • Running on power from a generator, it is constantly mortared and is a frequent target of airstrikes.

  • He applied voltage till his generator groaned, and watched in awe as meters climbed and climbed without any sign of stopping.

  • The generator hummed, the needles of the dials climbed, flickered, and steadied.

  • The generator was completed and installed on the nineteenth night.

  • The summer sun was hot the day the generator hummed into life.

  • "I didn't realize it would take such a large generator," he said after a silence.

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