precipitator

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

One who or that which precipitates (causes something to happen or urges it on with vehemence or rashness).
A person who, or device that, carries out precipitation.
An apparatus which removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation.

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Latin praecipitator (“an overthrower”); equivalent to precipitate + -or.

agent author cause

electrostatic precipitator

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