| ALTERNATOR | • alternator n. (Electrical engineering) An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means. • ALTERNATOR n. an electric generator for producing alternating current. |
| ANTIPORTER | • antiporter n. (Biochemistry) A cell protein that acts within an antiport to transport different molecules or ions… • ANTIPORTER n. a membrane protein that transports substances across cell membranes. |
| INTEGRATOR | • integrator n. A person who, or a device which, integrates. • integrator n. A device that calculates definite integrals. • integrator n. Any electronic device that sums a measurement over time. |
| NONSTARTER | • nonstarter n. A project that has no chance of success. • nonstarter n. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered. • nonstarter n. A loser; a person who is bound to fail. |
| ORIENTATOR | • orientator n. An instrument for orientating. • ORIENTATOR n. an instrument for orientating. |
| PENETRATOR | • penetrator n. Something that penetrates. • PENETRATOR n. something or someone that penetrates. |
| REINSTATOR | • reinstator n. Alternative form of reinstater. • REINSTATOR n. one who reinstates. |
| RETRACTION | • retraction n. An act or instance of retracting. • retraction n. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion… • retraction n. (Mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace. |
| TERMINATOR | • terminator n. Someone who terminates or ends something, especially (in later use) an assassin or exterminator. • terminator n. (Computing) A text character that serves to mark the end of a document or transmission. • terminator n. (Astronomy) The line between the day side and the night side of a moon, planet or other celestial body. |
| TORRENTIAL | • torrential adj. Coming or characterized by torrents; flowing heavily or in large quantities. • TORRENTIAL adj. resembling a torrent, also TORRENTUOUS. |
| TRIACONTER | • triaconter n. (Historical, Ancient Greece) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or thirty ranks of rowers. • TRIACONTER n. (historical) a Greek galley with thirty oars. |
| TROCHANTER | • trochanter n. (Anatomy) In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck. • trochanter n. In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur. • TROCHANTER n. a rough eminence on the thigh bone to which muscles are attached. |
| WATERFRONT | • waterfront n. The land alongside a body of water. • waterfront n. The dockland district of a town. • WATERFRONT n. land with buildings, or a section of a town fronting or abutting on a body of water. |