Generator (disambiguation)
Generator (from Latin generare , “to produce”, “to produce”) stands for
- Electric generator , a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy
- Van de Graaff generator (also known as a belt generator) for generating high DC voltages from mechanical movement
- Marx generator for generating high pulse voltages from direct voltage
- Signal generator , a device that generates electrical voltages with a characteristic time course
- (Hot) gas generator , a turbine drive
- Code generator , a programming tool that generates software (source code)
- a coroutine that returns elements of a sequence, see Iterator # Generators
- Generator (Markov processes) , an operator assigned to a stochastic process
- Generator of a strongly continuous semigroup, see Strongly continuous semigroup
- in group theory, a subset assigned to a group; all elements of the group can be generated from the subset; see producer (algebra)
- certain objects in a category, see generator and co-generator
- The expeller of an absorption refrigeration machine is also called a generator or desorber
- a device for the extraction of radionuclides from a mother-daughter system, see Technetium-99m generator and Gallium-68 generator
- Generator (album) , an album by Bad Religion
See also:
- Generator matrix , term in coding theory
