Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that separates, as a device for separating cream from milk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who separates.
- noun Any implement, machine, or contrivance used for separating one thing from another: as, cream-separators; grain- separators; magnetic separators (for separating valuable ores from the rock or sand by means of powerful magnets); etc.
- noun A device for separating water from steam: usually a vessel, placed in the steam-line, having deflectors so arranged as to throw the water against metallic surfaces to which it will cling.
- noun An insulating grid or plate of glass, vulcanite or other nonconducting material placed between the plates of a storage cell.
- noun A piece of metal placed between two adjacent beams to hold them at a fixed distance apart.
- noun A device on a ring-spinning machine designed to prevent interference between the yarns of adjacent spindles. Also called
antiballooner . - noun An instrument for separating the membranes from the brain in a postmortem examination.
- noun An instrument for widening the jaw and effecting separation of the crowded teeth.
- noun An appliance for obtaining the urine secreted by one kidney unmixed with that from the other kidney.
- noun A device used in a type-setting machine to permit only one character to pass through at a time.
- noun In electricity, a device by means of which a single line may be used simultaneously for telephony and telegraphic signaling or for two distinct sets of telegraphic signals.
- noun A separator, invented by Venstrom, in which the powdered ore is carried by a traveling belt toward a partly magnetized cylinder, which attracts the magnetic ore, carrying it into a chute leading to the ore-bin, while the non-magnetic ore is carried by the belt to the waste chute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Steam Boilers) A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.
- noun (Mining) An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
- noun (Weaving) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An object located between two or more things and hence
separates them. - noun A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
- noun An agent performing the action of
separating .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
Etymologies
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It is also obtained by an apparatus called a separator; this is known as "centrifugal cream," most of the cream now sold in cities being of this kind.
The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler
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Excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, gross profit decreased by $15.7 million due to lower overall unit sales combined with a one time charge of $2.8 million to resolve a contract dispute related to a now-expired long-term separator supply agreement, partially offset by improved manufacturing efficiencies.
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This may also prevent from sharing the URL in some social bookmarking services. it isn't seen by search engines as a word separator (this is slowly changing now) 4.
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A parenthesis, like many other characters, is deciphered as a word separator so, if you are near the right edge, the app may cut the text because the 'word' which is just after is too long to fit at the end of the line.
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A parenthesis, like many other characters, is deciphered as a word separator so, if you are near the right edge, the app may cut the text because the 'word' which is just after is too long to fit at the end of the line.
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This may also prevent from sharing the URL in some social bookmarking services. it isn't seen by search engines as a word separator (this is slowly changing now) 4.
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com 2010
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A parenthesis, like many other characters, is deciphered as a word separator so, if you are near the right edge, the app may cut the text because the 'word' which is just after is too long to fit at the end of the line.
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A parenthesis, like many other characters, is deciphered as a word separator so, if you are near the right edge, the app may cut the text because the 'word' which is just after is too long to fit at the end of the line.
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We'll use the following naming conventions in our database: everything lowercase, pluralized table names, and underscore as the word separator in column names.
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