01 n. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
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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.
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The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.(Mus.) Also: generating tone
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Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.(Elec.)
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a mathematical entity which, when subjected to an operation, yields another mathematical entity; also, a generatrix.(Math.) See: generatrix