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renderer

renderer

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A person or company that turns dead animals into fat and other useful materials
  • noun
  • /ˈrɛndərər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : procesador de subproductos animales
  • Renderers like Griffin have recently gone into the biodiesel fuel business.

Examples

  • Every year, thousands of animal carcasses are collected by renderers to create usable products.

  • "And some aren't using any animal protein from ruminants anymore." But with a market for mammal by-products available in hog and chicken feed, the ban may have little impact on renderers.

    Academic text (1997)

  • If you had read the error/warning it had given you, you should have seen that it created new materials because you used renderer.materials.

    Blog text (33)

  • "We're seeing renderers shift the flow of ruminant protein away from ruminant feed," says Mike Westendorf of Rutgers University.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The company that specializes in disposing of animal waste is known as a renderer.

  • The renderer processed the remains to extract valuable byproducts such as fat and meat meal.

Surface Forms

renderer singular
renderers plural

Morphology

renderer = render (transparent) = render + er

Formed regularly from the verb 'render' with the agentive suffix '-er', yielding 'one who renders' across the listed senses.

Etymology

Renderer comes from the Latin word reddere which means 'to give back', and in old use it meant 'to return or produce' something useful. A helpful way to remember the industrial sense is to think of a renderer as someone who 'gives back' useful materials like fat and tallow by breaking down animal remains.