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federator

federator noun: someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.

Noun

federator (plural federators)

  1. Someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.
    • Its power as an element of character, as an inspiration in art, as a federator of nations and factor of history, is freely admitted; and no place that it can fairly claim in the genesis of society and the regulation of life is denied to it.1878, James Martineau, Ideal Substitutes for God: Considered in an Opening Lecture at Manchester, page 6
    • There would perhaps be a federator, but it would not be European.2002, Michael Burgess, Federalism and the European Union, page 81
  2. A component that integrates access to various services.
    • Our extended standard GIS web Service components are integrated into the system through a federator, which is actually a WMS that is extended with capability-aggregating and stateful service capabilities to enable high performance support for responsive GIS applications.2009, Nik Bessis, Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support, page 281
    • The results of the crawler, the administrative components, and the federator are stored in a database.2012, Paul Baan, Enterprise Information Management, page 183

Examples of federator in a sentence

  • He called the US, “the unwanted federator of an integrated Europe.”2010, Erika Grey, The Seat of the Antichrist:
  • The following is a synopsis of the appeal to the people which the prince actually prepared for broadcast over Radio Algiers: He came forward as the federator of French energies.2012, Samuel M. Osgood, French Royalism under the Third and Fourth Republics, page 175:
  • The federator now can implement logic that determines where the data is placed.2013, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Data Intensive Storage Services for Cloud Environments, page 68:

Forms of federator

pluralfederators

Origin of federator

From federate + -or.

Questions about federator

What does federator mean?
Federator means someone or something that is instrumental in the creation of a federation.
How do you use federator in a sentence?
He called the US, “the unwanted federator of an integrated Europe.”
What part of speech is federator?
Federator is a noun.
What is the plural of federator?
The plural of federator is federators.

Words near federator in the dictionary

  1. federative
  2. Federative Republic of Brazil
  3. federative unit
  4. federative units
  5. federatively
  6. federator
  7. federators
  8. Federer
  9. Federici
  10. Federicis
  11. Federico

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