extractor UK /ɪkˈstɹæktə/US /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/ noun8 •Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others. •A machine for clearing combs of honey. •A device for rendering wax. •An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture. •A centrifugal drying machine. •A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber. •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. •A particular kind of bipartite graph. formsextractors