eductor
English
Noun
eductor (plural eductors)
- Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).
- 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
- Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.
- 1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing:
- The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel […]
Derived terms
References
- “eductor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈduk.tor/, [eːˈd̪ʊkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈduk.tor/, [eˈd̪ukt̪or]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ēductor | ēductōrēs |
| Genitive | ēductōris | ēductōrum |
| Dative | ēductōrī | ēductōribus |
| Accusative | ēductōrem | ēductōrēs |
| Ablative | ēductōre | ēductōribus |
| Vocative | ēductor | ēductōrēs |
References
- “eductor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- eductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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