Noun

Singular generator

Plural generators

generator (plural generators)

1. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
   1. (chemistry) An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
   2. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
   3. (mathematics) An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the given relators.
   4. (programming) A subordinate piece of code which, given some initial parameters will generate multiple output values on request.
2. A piece of apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
   1. Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Generator may refer to:

• Electrical generator
• Engine-generator, an electrical generator, but with its own engine.
• Generator (mathematics), any of several closely related usages in mathematics.

Music

• "Generator" (song), a song by The Foo Fighters
• "Generator" (The Holloways song), a song by The Holloways
• Generator (Bad Religion album), an album by punk band Bad Religion, and its opening track
• Generator (Aborym album)
• The Generators, a punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1997 by members of the defunct Warner Bros. band Schleprock
• Kix (band), an American glam metal band also known as the Generators

In computing:

• Generator (computer science), a specialized routine that acts like an iterator
• A program which produces a stream of data
• Pseudorandom number generator, producer of a sequence of random or nearly-random numbers
• Prime number generator, a producer of the ordered sequence of prime numbers
• A zero-generator, the pseudo-device /dev/zero outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes
• Code generator, a program which creates source code as its output
• anything that creates source code automatically in generative programming
• Natural language generator, a program that produces human language from a machine representation
• Generator matrix, a matrix whose rows can generate all the elements of a linear code

In popular culture:

• A Generator in the anime Generator Gawl is a metal-organic hybrid organism with far greater powers than that of a human.