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extractor

noun
/ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/US/ɪkˈstɹæktə/UK

Definitions

  1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

  2. An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.

  3. A centrifugal drying machine.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.

    2. A particular kind of bipartite graph.

    3. A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together…

      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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extractor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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