injector : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: injector	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for injector
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
injector n a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Injector \In*ject"or\, n. 1. One who, or that which, injects. 2. (Mach.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called {Giffard's injector}, from the inventor.