extractors

noun

1. 1

   Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

2. 2

   An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.

3. 3

   A centrifugal drying machine.

4. 4

   (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.

5. 5

   A particular kind of bipartite graph.

6. 6

   A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.