'Generator' may refer to:
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Electrical generator
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Generator (mathematics), any of several closely related usages in mathematics.
'Music'
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"Generator" (song), a song by The Foo Fighters
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"Generator" (The Holloways song), a song by The Holloways
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''Generator'' (album), an album by punk band Bad Religion, and its opening track
In 'computing':
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Generator (computer science), a specialized routine that acts like an iterator
★ A program which produces a
stream of data
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Pseudorandom number generator, producer of a sequence of random or nearly-random numbers
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Prime number generator, a producer of the ordered sequence of
prime numbers
★ A zero-generator, the pseudo-device
/dev/zero outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes
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Code generator, a program which creates source code as its output
★ anything that creates source code automatically in
generative programming
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Natural language generator, a program that produces human language from a machine representation
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Generator matrix, a matrix whose rows can generate all the elements of a
linear code
In 'popular culture':
★ A Generator in the anime ''
Generator Gawl'' is a metal-organic hybrid organism with far greater powers than that of a human.
See also
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