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extractor

/ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/ US
/ɪkˈstɹæktə/ UK

Rhymes with -æktə(ɹ)

noun extractors

A machine for clearing combs of honey.
A device for rendering wax.
An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
A centrifugal drying machine.
in a gun A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
A particular kind of bipartite graph.
A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.

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@misc{extractor_2026,
  title = {extractor},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/extractor},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}