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eductor

eductor noun: someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts). Also the ellipsis of gully eductor.

Noun

eductor (plural eductors)

  1. Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
    • Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC
    • The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel[…]1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing

Also used as

eductor is also the ellipsis of gully eductor.

Forms of eductor

pluraleductors

Origin of eductor

Latin eductor (“tutor”).

Words formed from eductor

Questions about eductor

What does eductor mean?
Eductor means someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
What part of speech is eductor?
Eductor is a noun.
What is the plural of eductor?
The plural of eductor is eductors.

Words near eductor in the dictionary

  1. eduction
  2. eduction pipe
  3. eduction pipes
  4. eductions
  5. eductive
  6. eductor
  7. eductors
  8. educts
  9. edulcorant
  10. edulcorate
  11. edulcorated

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