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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]initiator (plural initiators)
- One who initiates.
- (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
- (military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to trigger a fission chain reaction.
- 1984, Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 301:
- ‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman. ‘An initiator, you see, is what sets off a nuke.’
- (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
- (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who initiates
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chemistry: substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization
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computing: task that initiates multiple jobs
medicine: material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer
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Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]initiātor
References
[edit]- “initiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- initiator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- initiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.