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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A rock breaker which converts large stone into small aggregate b. A machine that produces body raw material in the form of grains with aminimum of fines. (references) |
Occupations | Operates mixing and milling machines to mix and granulate powdered ingredients preparatory to compressing into medicinal tablets: Weighs out and measures ingredients, according to formula and size of batch to be mixed. Starts mixing machine to blend ingredients and adds starch paste, gelatin, or water and alcohol solution to mixture to bind ingredients. Breaks up lumps in mixture, using spatula or mortar and pestle, spreads mixture onto trays, and places trays in oven or steam drier at preset temperature. Removes trays and feels material to ascertain dryness, or tests material with moisture meter to determine whether batch requires additional mixing or drying. Installs cutting blades and screens, using handtools, and operates oscillating or comminuting mill to force mixture through sieves and produce product of specified fineness. May screen granulated mixture to determine size range of granules. May tend ion-exchange equipment to remove mineral salts from water. May tend tumbling barrel or other equipment to mix binders, flavoring oils, and lubricating agents for use in compounding tablets. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GRANULATOR |
| Specialty definitions using "GRANULATOR": granulator operator, GRANULATOR TENDER ♦ HARVESTER OPERATOR, hydraulic-press operator ♦ mechanical-press operator ♦ PELLET-PRESS OPERATOR, POND TENDER ♦ slag expander, SUPERVISOR, POND ♦ WET-AND-DRY-SUGAR-BIN OPERATOR. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GRANULATOR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (granulator). |
| "GRANULATOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRANULATOR" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
granulator | 24 |
rapid granulator | 5 |
granulator plastic | 2 |
cumberland granulator | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRANULATOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | granulator. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GRANULATOR": granulators. (additional references) | |
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"GRANULATOR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drumulator, granuliform. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-l-n-o-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: guarantor. | |
-2 letters: argonaut, arrogant, granular, tarragon. | |
-3 letters: angular, arugola, auroral, granola, grantor, languor, natural, outrang. | |
-4 letters: agonal, analog, angora, antral, anural, aortal, arrant, atonal, aurora, garron, laguna, langur, lanugo, nougat, organa, ourang, outran, raglan, ragout, ranula, rugola, tarnal, torula, turgor. | |
-5 letters: agora, alang, alant, algor, along, altar, antra, aorta, argal, argol, argon, argot, artal, aural. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-l-n-o-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: granulators. | |
+3 letters: congratulator, gubernatorial. | |
+4 letters: antiregulatory, congratulators, congratulatory, regularization. | |
+5 letters: nonagricultural, regularizations, ultrasonography. | |
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