Definition of "extractor" in English

noun

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

2. (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.

3. A centrifugal drying machine.

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

5. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.

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.