COLLECTOR | • collector n. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. • collector n. A person who is employed to collect payments. • collector n. (Electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. |
CONNECTOR | • connector n. One who connects. • connector n. A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together… • connector n. A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange… |
CONVECTOR | • convector n. A space heater that transfers heat by convection; a radiator. • CONVECTOR n. an apparatus for heating by convection. |
CORRECTOR | • corrector n. One who corrects. • corrector n. (Obsolete) A proofreader. • corrector n. (Obsolete) A director or governor. |
DEFLECTOR | • deflector n. Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles. • deflector n. A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion. • deflector n. (Science fiction) A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield. |
DISSECTOR | • dissector n. One who dissects; an anatomist. • DISSECTOR n. one who dissects. |
INFLECTOR | • inflector n. (Linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word. • inflector n. (Physics) A device for bending a particle beam. • inflector n. (Anatomy) A muscle that contracts to cause a part of the body to curve inwards. |
INSPECTOR | • inspector n. A person employed to inspect something. • inspector n. (Law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent. • inspector n. (Computing) A software tool used to examine something. |
NEGLECTOR | • neglector n. One who or that which neglects. • NEGLECTOR n. one who neglects, also NEGLECTER. |
NONVECTOR | • nonvector n. Something that is not a vector (in any sense). • NONVECTOR n. something that is not a vector. |
PERFECTOR | • perfector n. One who perfects. • PERFECTOR n. a machine for perfecting, printing both sides at once. |
PRELECTOR | • prelector n. A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. • PRELECTOR n. a reader of lectures or discourses. |
PROJECTOR | • projector n. Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something. • projector n. An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving… • projector n. (Psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others. |
PRORECTOR | • prorector n. An officer who presides over the academic senate of a university in certain countries. • prorector n. A substitute or assistant rector. • PRORECTOR n. an officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. |
PROSECTOR | • prosector n. A person who prepares a body for dissection by students, or dissects them as demonstrations. • PROSECTOR n. one who dissects bodies in anatomical lectures. |
PROTECTOR | • protector n. Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative. • protector n. A device or mechanism which is designed to protect. • protector n. One who prevents interference. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |
REFLECTOR | • reflector n. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface. • reflector n. A reflecting telescope. • reflector n. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights… |
SUBSECTOR | • subsector n. A sector (section, zone) of a larger sector. • SUBSECTOR n. part of a sector. |
TRISECTOR | • trisector n. (Geometry) A line or curve that trisects something. • TRISECTOR n. one who trisects. |