Synonyms:
generator
Meaning: an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas
Synonyms:
generator
Meaning: engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
Usage examples
Then the forward rep-ray generator exploded, and all signals went dead.
In the center of the compartment, on a massively braced universal joint mounting, was what I took for the repellor generator.
Not that I intend to stop looking for the bombs or the jump-space generator either. We are going to try anything that will avert this planetary murder."
Such as the windmill is for wind and the turbine water-wheel for water was the screw propeller, although adapted, not as a generator, but as an application of power. Having made the work and stress continuous, the next thing to be accomplished was to effect a similar reform in the engines supplying the power.