LECTOR | • lector n. (Religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service. • lector n. (Education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities. • lector n. (Historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union. |
ELECTOR | • elector n. (Politics) A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter. • Elector n. (Historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector. • ELECTOR n. one that elects. |
SELECTOR | • selector n. Someone or something which selects or chooses. • selector n. (Cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side. • selector n. (Computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style. |
COLLECTOR | • collector n. A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection. • collector n. A person who is employed to collect payments. • collector n. (Electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor. |
DEFLECTOR | • deflector n. Something which deflects something else, especially a stream of fluid or particles. • deflector n. A diaphragm in a lamp, stove, etc. by which the flame and gases are brought together to improve combustion. • deflector n. (Science fiction) A force field; an invisible barrier used as a protective shield. |
INFLECTOR | • inflector n. (Linguistics) An affix that inflects the base form of a word. • inflector n. (Physics) A device for bending a particle beam. • inflector n. (Anatomy) A muscle that contracts to cause a part of the body to curve inwards. |
NEGLECTOR | • neglector n. One who or that which neglects. • NEGLECTOR n. one who neglects, also NEGLECTER. |
PRELECTOR | • prelector n. A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. • PRELECTOR n. a reader of lectures or discourses. |
REFLECTOR | • reflector n. Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface. • reflector n. A reflecting telescope. • reflector n. A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights… |
GENUFLECTOR | • genuflector n. One who genuflects. • GENUFLECTOR n. one who genuflects. |
PRESELECTOR | • preselector n. Any of various radio switching or filtering devices. • preselector n. (Automotive) A manual gearbox designed so that the manual shift lever preselects the next gear to be… • PRESELECTOR n. a component of a radio receiver, improving reception. |
NONCOLLECTOR | • noncollector n. One who is not a collector. • NONCOLLECTOR n. someone who is not a collector. |
RETROREFLECTOR | • retroreflector n. A retroreflective device or surface. • RETROREFLECTOR n. a device that reflects radiation so that the paths of the reflected rays are parallel to those of the incident rays. |