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Vibrator   Listen
noun
Vibrator  n.  One that vibrates, or causes vibration or oscillation of any kind; specif.
(a)
(Elec.) (1) A trembler, as of an electric bell. (2) A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system. (3) A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper. (4) An oscillator.
(b)
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
(c)
(Music) A vibrating reed, esp. in a reed organ.
(d)
(Weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
(e)
An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a molding machine to shake the pattern loose.
(f)
A small electrical device held in the hand, with a motor that causes the device and hand to vibrate, and is used for vibratory massage.





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"Vibrator" Quotes from Famous Books



... coil and connect it up with a battery and start the vibrator. Then take one outlet wire, R, and connect to one side of a 2-cp. electric lamp, and the other outlet wire, B, hold in one hand, and press all fingers of the other hand on globe at point A. A bright, blue light will come from the wires in the lamp to the surface of the globe ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... me? It's a lifebrightener, sure. The hottest stuff ever was. It's the whole pie with jam in. It's just the cutest snappiest line out. It is immense, supersumptuous. It restores. It vibrates. I know and I am some vibrator. Joking apart and, getting down to bedrock, A. J. Christ Dowie and the harmonial philosophy, have you got that? O. K. Seventyseven west sixtyninth street. Got me? That's it. You call me up by sunphone any old time. Bumboosers, save your stamps. (He shouts) Now then our ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


Words linked to "Vibrator" :   mechanical device, vibrate, vibrating reed


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