separator
Americannoun
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a person or thing that separates.
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any of various apparatus for separating one thing from another, as cream from milk, steam from water, or wheat from chaff.
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Electricity. a device that prevents metal contact between plates of opposite charge in a storage battery.
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Machinery. retainer.
noun
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a person or thing that separates
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a device for separating things into constituent parts, as milk into cream, etc
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of separator
1600–10; < Late Latin sēparātor, equivalent to Latin sēparā ( re ) to separate + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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The Separator Series is our most popular category, color-blocked boardshorts, goes to a new levels for 2006.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inventions, discoveries, innovations reported during the past seven days, included: Radio "Separator."
From Time Magazine Archive
This saved the wages of the egg twirlers, whose method of candling eggs, as it was called, was far less rapid than the Separator.
From Mother by Wister, Owen
Some farmers threshed directly from the shock, and the new "Vibrator" took the place of the old Buffalo Pitts Separator with its ringing bell-metal pinions.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
This is in November, 1890; on New Year’s Eve came the inexorable, “Terminator of delights and Separator of friends.”
From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William
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