Generator

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Generator may refer to:

• Electrical generator
• Generator (mathematics), any of several closely related usages in mathematics.

Music

• "Generator" (song), a song by The Foo Fighters
• "Generator" (The Holloways song), a song by The Holloways
• Generator (album), an album by punk band Bad Religion, and its opening track

In computing:

• Generator (computer science), a specialized routine that acts like an iterator
• A program which produces a stream of data
• Pseudorandom number generator, producer of a sequence of random or nearly-random numbers
• Prime number generator, a producer of the ordered sequence of prime numbers
• A zero-generator, the pseudo-device /dev/zero outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes
• Code generator, a program which creates source code as its output
• anything that creates source code automatically in generative programming
• Natural language generator, a program that produces human language from a machine representation
• Generator matrix, a matrix whose rows can generate all the elements of a linear code

In popular culture:

• A Generator in the anime Generator Gawl is a metal-organic hybrid organism with far greater powers than that of a human.

See also

• Generate

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