generators

noun

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.

(chemistry) 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.

(programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.

(music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.

(music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.

(mathematics) 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.

(geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.

Roots

generogen- · Latin · beget, produce

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