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Webster 1913 Edition
Generator
Gen′er-aˊtor
,Noun.
[L.]
1.
One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
2.
An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
3.
(Mus.)
The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; – called also
generating tone
. Webster 1828 Edition
Generator
GEN'ERATOR
,Noun.
1.
In music, the principal sound or sounds by which others are produced. Thus the lowest C for the treble of the harpsichord, besides its octave, will strike an attentive ear with its twelfth above, or G in alt., and with its seventeenth above, or E in alt. Hence C is called their generator, the G and E its products or harmonics.2.
A vessel in which steam is generated.