eductor

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noun

Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).

OriginLatin eductor →
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Meanings

nouneductor (plural eductors)

plural eductors

  1. Someone or something that educts (elicits or extracts).

    Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether.

    1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC
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    The eductors in an entrance channel will have to be placed at the end of long pipes that extend from outside the entrance channel[…]

    1994, Gregory L. Williams, James E. Clausner, Peter Jay Neilans, Improved Eductors for Sand Bypassing
  2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of gully eductor.

Origin

  1. Latineductor“tutor”
  2. Englisheductor

Latin eductor (“tutor”).

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Anagrams

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APA

eductor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eductor

MLA

“eductor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eductor. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eductor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eductor.

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