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extractor

/ɪkˈstɹæktə/ /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/

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noun

Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

Examples :

"The dentist used an extractor to carefully remove the broken tooth. "

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An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.

Examples :

"The chemist used an extractor to separate the caffeine from the coffee beans. "

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noun

A centrifugal drying machine.

Examples :

"After washing the lettuce, we spun it in the extractor to remove the excess water. "

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noun

(in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.

Examples :

"The gunsmith checked the rifle's extractor to ensure it would reliably remove spent cartridges. "

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noun

A particular kind of bipartite graph.

Examples :

"The data extractor, showing relationships between customer IDs and purchase history, is an example of a bipartite graph. "

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noun

Examples :

"To improve the security of our password generator, we need to use an extractor to take the weakly random data from the computer's internal sensors and, with a random seed, produce a stronger, more unpredictable sequence of numbers. "

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