traductors

Noun

traductor (plural traductors)

1. (obsolete) translator.
   • This early use of the words is most decisive of their meaning : when the two languages reflect the same meaning, the evidence overflows. Both are consecrated to one religious idea. Who could be so well qualified as the Alexandrine traductors to construe Mosaic phrase, — not only by a knowledge of...1847, Richard Winter Hamilton, The Revealed Doctrine of Rewards and Punishments, page 369
2. Anything that translates information from one format into a different format.
   • An information traductor carries information from some source (such as an expression) to some destination (such as a register, or module port).1980, Journal of Digital Systems, page 44
3. A long arm that is used to suspend a bag to be dropped onto a passing train and which retracts automatically be means of a spring when the bag is dropped.
   • As soon as the bag is removed, the lever returns to its normal position by the action of the spring in the column, the traductor striking the rubber disc already referred to.1896, Lawrence Saunders, S. R. Blundstone, The Railway Engineer - Volume 17, page 325