Regenerator

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  • n. One who, or that which, regenerates.
  • n. A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, regenerates.
  • n. A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping, hot air or gas.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Ono who regenerates.
  • n. In metallurgy, a chamber filled with a checker-work of fire-bricks; that part of a regenerative furnace in which the waste heat of the gases escaping from the hearth is, by reversal of the draft at suitable intervals, alternately stored up and given out to the gas and air entering the furnace.
  • n. A lamp which generates formaldehyde by the oxidation of methyl alcohol.
    • Word Usage
    "It is certain, however, that so-called regenerator furnaces of various forms have, from time to time, been brought into use at gas works for the purpose in question both on the"
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