GENERATORとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʒɛnəɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

名詞

generator (plural generators)

1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
   1. (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
   2. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
   3. (music) An interval that is repeatedly stacked to obtain other pitches in tuning systems or scales.
   4. (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
   5. (geometry) One of the lines of a ruled surface; more generally, an element of some family of linear spaces.
   6. (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters, will generate multiple output values on request.

      Synonym: semicoroutine

      • 2016, Paul Barry, Head First Python: A Brain-Friendly Guide, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 508:

        When you come across something that looks like a listcomp but is surrounded by parentheses, you're looking at a generator: […]

2. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
   1. Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
      • 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:

        Heating in the passenger sections is by electricity obtained from the main generator. When heating is dictated by the operation of a thermostat in the roof of the motor coach, engine idling speed is 600 r.p.m. instead of the normal 450 r.p.m. in order to produce a high enough generator voltage output at rest.

      • 2009 October 2, John Vidal, “'Tilting at windmills: the boy who harnessed the wind'”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

        Using a tractor fan, shock absorbers, PVC pipes, a bicycle frame and anything else he could lay his hands on, he then built a rudimentary wooden tower, plonked his home-made generator on the top, and eventually got one, and then four bulbs to light up.

      • 2010, Taiwan: Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook‎, International Business Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 130:

        WIND
        Since 2001, Taipower has installed eight wind-powered generators on Penghu, and in 2004 the main island's first commercial wind farm — located in Shihmen Township, Taipei County, and built by Taipower — went online.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “one which generates”): extinguisher

派生語

語源 1

From generō (“bring to life, beget, generate, produce”) +‎ -tor (masculine agentive suffix).

名詞

generātor m (genitive generātōris, feminine generātrīx); third declension

1. begetter, producer, generator, engenderer

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

語源 2

Inflected form of generō (“bring to life, beget, generate, produce”).

動詞

generātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of generō

参照

• “generator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• generator in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “generator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “generator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers