suppressor
/ (səˈprɛsə) /
a person or thing that suppresses
a device fitted to an electrical appliance to suppress unwanted electrical interference to audiovisual signals
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How to use suppressor in a sentence
But in Jamaica there was a powerful fire suppressor—the heavy rain.
Immediately, Forrester felt Mars throw out a suppressor field that would keep him from forming another Veil.
Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall GarrettBut Marshal Crow's reputation as a horse-thief taker and general suppressor of crime constantly upbraided him.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow | George Barr McCutcheonRemove the center distributor lead and insert the distributor suppressor in its place.
Delco Manuals: Radio Model 633, Delcotron Generator | Delco-Remy DivisionThis abominable endeavour to suppressor lessen every thing that is praise-worthy, is as frequent among the men as women.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant | John Hamilton Moore
But it is to the suppressor of this movement, rather than to its leader, that the Roumanians look back as their national hero.
The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany | C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice
Scientific definitions for suppressor
[ sə-prĕs′ər ]
A mutant gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another usually mutant gene.
A device, such as a resistor or grid, that is used in an electrical or electronic system to reduce unwanted currents.♦ A suppressor grid in a vacuum tube such as a pentode is designed to prevent the secondary emission of electrons from the plate. When electrons emitted by the tube's cathode strike the plate, their energies can be high enough to cause secondary emission of low-energy electrons from the plate, and these electrons can drift away into other positively charged electrodes in the tube (like the screen or the control grid), drawing current from the plate. A negatively charged suppressor grid near the plate repels these low-energy electrons and pushes them back toward the plate so that no current is lost, increasing the efficiency of the tube.
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