extractor

Meanings

1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
2. A machine for clearing combs of honey.
3. A device for rendering wax.
4. An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
5. A centrifugal drying machine.
6. A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
7. A particular kind of bipartite graph.
8. A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.