extractors

/EH0 K S T R AE1 K T ER0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

  2. 2

    An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.

  3. 3

    A centrifugal drying machine.

  4. 4

    (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.

  5. 5

    A particular kind of bipartite graph.

  6. 6

    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.

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