initiator

See also: Initiator

English

Etymology

initiate +‎ -or

Noun

initiator (plural initiators)

1. One who initiates.
2. (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
3. (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
4. (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.

Translations

one who initiates

• Azerbaijani: təşəbbüskar
• Bulgarian: инициатор (bg) m (iniciator)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 创办者，发起人

• Dutch: initiator (nl) m
• Finnish: alullepanija (fi)
• French: initiateur (fr) m, iniatrice f
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• German: Initiator (de) m, Initiatorin (de) f
• Italian: iniziatore (it) m, iniziatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 言い出しっ屁 (いいだしっぺ, iidashippe)
• Russian: инициа́тор (ru) m (iniciátor), основополо́жник (ru) m (osnovopolóžnik)

chemistry: substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization

• German: Initiator (de) m
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computing: task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs

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medicine: material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer

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• Italian: iniziatore (it) m
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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) initiātor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of initiō
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of initiō

References

• “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.