Generator
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'''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]]
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