regenerator

American  

[ri-jen-uh-rey-ter] / rɪˈdʒɛn əˌreɪ tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that regenerates.

2. (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.

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Etymology

Origin of regenerator

First recorded in 1730–40; regenerate + -or ²

Example Sentences

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

First there is a rectangular case, called the regenerator, with, below it, two small cylinders of compressed oxygen.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

No sooner were their doctrines promulgated, than all the visionaries, Paracelsists, and alchymists, flocked around their standard, and vaunted Rosencreutz as the new regenerator of the human race.”

From Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples by Anonymous