recombinator

English

Etymology

recombine +‎ -ator

Noun

recombinator (plural recombinators)

1. Anything that serves to recombine a set of elements.
   • 2003, Elton N. Kaufmann, Characterization of materials - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 1246:

     After the ion source, the facility uses a Pretzel magnet (Knies et al., 1997a) to act as a unique recombinator to simultaneously transmit from 1 to 200 amu ions but attenuate intense matrix-related beams.

   • 2011, Raegan Murphy, Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement, →ISBN, page 236:

     This brief chapter serves as a summarizing recombinator, a necessary pull to the knot, in order to secure the package in one coherent and complete whole.

   • 2009, Rob McLennan, Side/Lines, →ISBN, page 52:

     My personal metaphor for the poet has long been that of filter, or cultural recombinator.

2. Any of various devices or components that serve to recombine inputs.
   • 1965, Canada. Patent Office, Canadian Patent Office Record - Volume 93, page 8195:

     Apparatus for electrostatic precipitation of coating material upon an article, comprising a spray producing atomizer, a rotatable recombinator means disposed coaxially with the atomizer in the region of spray of the atomizer, and spaced impact members carried by said recombinator means, said recombinator means forming one of the electrodes required to produce an electrostatic field...

   • 1977, Karl Kordesch, Batteries, page 451:

     It can also be achieved by providing an individual recombinator for each cell in the cell vent plug [11-13].

   • 1982, Wolfgang Palz, Photovoltaic power generation - Volume 1, page 98:

     Heat evolved by the chemical reaction escapes through the upper side of the recombinator.

   • 1998, Robert J, Schneider & Karl F. Von Reden, “A Correction for Aberrations in the Woods Hole Recombinator”, in Symposium Of North Eastern Accelerator Personnel, →ISBN, page 124:

     Measured transmission curves for the three isotopes were taken through the accelerator, by sweeping the switching magnet, which is the last element in the recombinator.

   • 2014, Simon Head, Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans, →ISBN:

     The workings of the recombinator are exceedingly complex, an inevitable consequence of the engineer's attempts to juggle the hundreds of possible combinations of processes and subprocesses and to anticipate the contingencies that might arise in an activity so subject to the vagaries of human nature and performance as human resource management.

3. (genetic biology) A sequence of nucleotides that act as a signal for the recombination of amino acids.
   • 1968, William James Peacock, Richard Donald Brock, Replication and Recombination of Genetic Material, page 171:

     If the receptor can be equated with the recombinator, this would imply that more than one type of recombinator may exist and therefore more than one type of breaking enzyme.

   • 1971, David M. Prescott, Lester Goldstein, Edwin H. McConkey, Advances in Cell Biology - Volume 2, page 197:

     It is still possible that recombinator sequences could also be part of structural genes, but the number of intragenic recombination sites in the bacteriophage and bacteria makes this improbable in these organisms.

   • 1981, Jeffrey N. Strathern, Elizabeth W. Jones, James R. Broach, The Molecular Biology of the Yeast Saccharomyces, Life Cycle and Inheritance:

     Many molecular recombination models propose such recombinator regions from which hybrid DNA is propagated.

   • 1985, T. Cavalier-Smith, The Evolution of Genome Size, page 88:

     There is independent genetic evidence (Whitehouse, 1982) that crossing-over is not initiated at random but only at a limited number of specific sites: the recombinator genes.