extruder
- noun
- /ɪkˈstruːdər/
- Specialized
:
extrusora
- The new 3D printer features an advanced extruder that efficiently pushes plastic filament through the nozzle.
Almost as cool, actually not even close as the star of the show, the extruder.
- Almost as cool, actually not even close as the star of the show, the extruder.
Examples
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The research team uses a RepRap 3D printer and a custom extruder head to print a filament network composed of sucrose, glucose, and dextran, which is later encased in a bio-gel containing living cells.
Blog text (12) -
Begun as a project at the University of Bath in England, the Rep-Rap is a skeletal framework supporting belts, drives, and a plastic extruder.
Academic text (2011) -
And then the extruder itself is held in just with one screw.
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And also so I can test out my dual extruder slice when I start the print.
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Press down on the Gray rings top of the extruders and pull the black.
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It just comes with this like play DoH extruder type thing.
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So each extruder is capable of printing both PLA and ABS.
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They had the mining crew run three days of tests on the Mr. Plastics extruder, cranking out three thousand meters of tubing.
Fiction book (2001) -
To be sure, the extruder head and the steel supports are beyond the scope of the Rep-Rap to print out—and look to be for quite a while.
Academic text (2011) -
Each extruder in the machine is designed to handle different types of printing materials for greater versatility.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Extruder comes from the Latin extrudere, built from ex- 'out' and trudere 'to push'. So the extruder is the part of a machine, like a 3D printer, that 'pushes out' material through a small opening to form objects.
