Generator

1. (n.) One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
2. (n.) An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.
3. (n.) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.
4. (n.) Any machine that transforms mechanical into electrical energy; a dynamo.