digester
Americannoun
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a person or thing that digests.
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Chemistry. Also digestor an apparatus in which substances are softened or disintegrated by moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like.
noun
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chem an apparatus or vessel, such as an autoclave, in which digestion is carried out
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a less common word for digestant
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a person or thing that digests
Etymology
Origin of digester
Example Sentences
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This is collected by local councils and fed into a digester, and once again the bacteria get to work.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
And New York State requires large food businesses to donate excess edible food and recycle remaining scraps if they are within 25 miles of a composting facility or anaerobic digester.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
The facility would not be the first of its kind in the Yakima Valley; a smaller anaerobic digester is in operation near Outlook.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Greenleaf, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community less than 20 miles south of Green Bay, is now home to a massive digester facility.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022
Our author urges, with force of arguments and the evidence of authentic papers, entirely to our satisfaction, that John Winthrop was essentially and substantially the digester and exponent of those pregnant considerations.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
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