Generator 166841 209034592 2008-04-29T17:12:56Z Towel401 110639 add engine-generator {{wiktionarypar|generator}} '''Generator''' may refer to: * [[Electrical generator]] * [[Engine-generator]], an electrical generator, but with its own engine. * [[Generator (mathematics)]], any of several closely related usages in mathematics. '''Music''' * [[Generator (song)|"Generator" (song)]], a song by The Foo Fighters * [[Generator (The Holloways song)|"Generator" (The Holloways song)]], a song by The Holloways * [[Generator (album)|''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 (computing)|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 number]]s * A zero-generator, the pseudo-device [[/dev/zero]] outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes * [[Code generation|Code generator]], a program which creates source code as its output * anything that creates source code automatically in [[generative programming]] * [[Natural language generation|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]] {{disambig}} [[cs:Generátor]] [[fr:Générateur]] [[it:Generatore]] [[nl:Generator]] [[nn:Generator]] [[pl:Generator]] [[pt:Generator]] [[ru:Генератор]] [[sk:Generátor]] [[uk:Генератор]]