extractor
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6.1
- noun
- /ɪkˈstræktər/
- Specialized
:
extractor
- Our new extractor efficiently identifies customer information from unstructured email formats.
- feature extractor
- pitch extractor
Examples
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Canada has made a major effort to market itself as the most efficient and lowest cost resource extractor around.
Blog text (21) -
In each, a given feature extractor was used to compute a vector of features from the given input to be processed.
Academic text (2012) -
The Computer-Based Music Skills Assessment Project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts made extensive use of a new pitch extractor, the Pitchboard, developed by Adams-Fravel, Inc.
Academic text (1992) -
The software serves as an extractor to pull relevant data from various web pages.
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She used the data extractor to gather statistics from different online sources.
Synonyms
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6.6
A program that automatically collects data from websites by reading their pages
Compounds
- Specialized
A small part that pulls an empty shell from a gun chamber after firing
Surface Forms
Morphology
extractor = extract (semi-transparent) = ex + tract + or
The software sense follows the standard pattern 'something that extracts', so the derivation from 'extract' is straightforward.
Etymology
Extractor comes from the Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and tract meaning 'pull', the same root you see in tractor. So a software extractor is a program that 'pulls out' useful data from messy web pages or files.