extractor

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹæktə/

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• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

extractor (plural extractors)

1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
   1. A machine for clearing combs of honey.
   2. A device for rendering wax.
2. (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
3. A centrifugal drying machine.
4. (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
5. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
6. A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.

Borrowed from French extracteur.

extractor n (plural extractori)

1. extractor

extractor (feminine extractora, masculine plural extractores, feminine plural extractoras)

1. extracting

extractor m (plural extractores)

1. extractor, extractor fan

• “extractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “extractor” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.