Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that generates, especially a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  • noun An apparatus that generates vapor or gas.
  • noun A circuit that generates a specified waveform.
  • noun Computers A program that produces specific programs from the definition of an operation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which begets, causes, or produces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  • noun An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
  • noun (Mus.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.
  • noun (Elec.) Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.
  • noun (Math.) a mathematical entity which, when subjected to an operation, yields another mathematical entity; also, a generatrix.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  • noun A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an electronic device for producing a signal voltage
  • noun an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
  • noun someone who originates or causes or initiates something
  • noun engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin, from past participle of genero ("beget, father")

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