reproˈducer
(riː-)
[f. prec. + -er1.]
1. One who or that which reproduces.
| 1774 Burke Amer. Tax. Wks. 1792 I. 565 You understand..that I speak of Charles Townshend, officially the re-producer of this fatal scheme. 1841 Gladstone State in Rel. Ch. iv. §100 (ed. 4), Not as a creator, or an inventor, or even a reproducer, of a system. 1876 Contemp. Rev. XXVII. 968 A timid, dependent, incoherent reproducer, whose plagiarisms his old pupil amused himself by detecting. |
2. spec. In the phonograph, the part by which the sound is reproduced. Also, any device for reproducing recorded sound.
| 1888 Nature 29 Nov. 108/1 Consequently, there are two diaphragms, one a recorder and the other a reproducer. 1899 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 191/3 The price of the Universal Graphophone, with a long run clockwork motor recorder, reproducer, hearing, speaking tubes and horn, is $50. 1937 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture Engineers XXIX. 218 With a high-quality microphone, a high-quality reproducer, and a suitably corrected amplifier, the response curve can be made uniform. 1961 G. A. Briggs A to Z in Audio 169 The console includes a tape reproducer with 7½{pp}, 15{pp} and 30{pp} speeds. 1978 Gramophone Aug. 399/3 The Stanton 681EEE, which continues in production, is already a very fine reproducer. |
3. Computers. A machine for making copies of punched cards or tape.
| 1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods ii. 20 The High Speed Reproducer. This machine is used to transfer information from one card to another. 1949 [see interpreter 5 a]. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers vi. 100 A machine called a reproducer..automatically reproduces the information in a pack of old cards into new ones. 1970 A. Chandor et al. Dict. Computers 291 Paper tape reproducer... Also known as a reperforator. |