circulator

American  

[sur-kyuh-lay-ter] / ˈsɜr kjəˌleɪ tər /

noun

1. a person who moves from place to place.

2. a person who circulates money, information, etc.

3. a talebearer or scandalmonger.

4. any of various devices for circulating gases or liquids.

5. Obsolete. a mountebank.

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Etymology

Origin of circulator

1600–10; < Latin circulātor itinerant vendor who gathers a circle of people round himself ( circulate, -tor ); later as circulate + -or ²

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Example Sentences

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circulator

At the center of the "Y" is the circulator, which is like a traffic roundabout for the microwave signals mediating the quantum interactions.

From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024

You might have anti-griddles over here, you're going to have a Carpigiani ice cream machine over here, you're going to have a circulator already set.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023

“To be clear, if paid circulator fraud did occur to any extent, the Recall Committee, survivors of crime, and residents of Los Angeles are the victims, and the paid circulators should be held fully accountable.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

In one video The Times reviewed, Fight for $15 organizer Cherie Wallace asks a petition circulator who approached her, “So this is to get the minimum wage to $22?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

The air inside the space shack was stale because of a faulty filter in the oxygen circulator that neither Wallace nor Simms bothered to clean.

From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Louis Glanzman

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