Generator

Generator may refer to:

• Signal generator, electronic devices that generate repeating or non-repeating electronic signals
• Electric generator, a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy.
• Tidal stream generator, often referred to as a tidal energy converter (TEC), a machine that extracts energy from moving masses of water, in particular tides, although the term is often used in reference to machines designed to extract energy from run of river or tidal estuarine sites
• Generator (circuit theory), an element in an abstract circuit providing a source of electricity
• Engine-generator, an electric generator with its own engine
• Wearable generator, a hypothetical generator that can be worn on the human body
• Gas generator a device, often similar to a solid rocket or a liquid rocket that burns to produce large volumes of relatively cool gas
• Motor–generator, a device for converting electrical power to another form
• Atmospheric water generator, a device capable of extracting water from air

Mathematics

• Generator (mathematics)
• Generator matrix, a matrix used in coding theory
• Generator (category theory) of a category, in category mathematics
• Generating set of a group, group generators in abstract algebra
• Infinitesimal generator (stochastic processes), in stochastic analysis

Computing

• Application generator, software that generates application programs from descriptions of the problem rather than by traditional programming
• Generator (computer programming), a routine that acts like an iterator
• Pseudorandom number generator, a producer of random numbers
• Code generator, part of a compiler
• Natural-language generator, generating natural language from a machine representation system such as a knowledge base or a logical form
• Random test generator, used in software testing

Music

• The Generators, a 1997 punk rock band from Los Angeles
• Kix (band), an American glam metal band also known as The Generators
• Generator (Bad Religion album), and the album's opening track
• Generator (Aborym album), the fourth studio album by the Italian/Norwegian industrial black metal band Aborym
• "Generator" (Foo Fighters song), 2000
• "Generator" (The Holloways song), 2006
• "Generator", a 2015 song by Doomtree from All Hands
• "Generator", a 1995 song by Elastica from The Menace
• "Generator", a 2007 song by Minipop from A New Hope
• "Generator", a 2017 song by Turnstile from Time & Space

• Tuning generator

Politics

• Generator Collective, American campaign group

See also

• Gener8tor, an American venture capital firm
• Generation (disambiguation)
• Generate (disambiguation)
• Regenerative heat exchanger