vibrator
Meanings
noun
- A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
- A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
- A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
- A trembler, as of an electric bell.
- A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
- A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
- An oscillator.
- An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
- A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
- Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
- An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
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From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate + -or.
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