regenerator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that regenerates.
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(in a regenerative furnace) a chamber filled with checkerwork that is repeatedly heated by exhaust gases in order to heat air that is passed through it.
Etymology
Origin of regenerator
First recorded in 1730–40; regenerate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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I mean, even on Star Trek a dermal regenerator could only do so much.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018
That solution is pumped to a regenerator, or stripper, which heats the amine and releases the CO2.
From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017
A regenerator made of crimped steel wire between the hot & cold spaces keeps heat from being wasted by the moving air.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘So ended one of the greatest men that Rome had hitherto produced—a man who under more fortunate circumstances would perhaps have become the regenerator of his country.’
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
The great philosophical Radical, the encyclopædia of political wisdom, the benefactor, the saviour, the regenerator of Ireland, left Cork to the strains of the Butter Exchange Band—con amore, affetuoso, and doubtless con spirito.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
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