extractor

Noun

1. Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

   1. A machine for clearing combs of honey.

   2. A device for rendering wax.

2. An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
3. A centrifugal drying machine.
4. A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
5. A particular kind of bipartite graph.
6. A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.