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Centrifuge vs Extractor - What's the difference?

centrifuge | extractor |

As nouns the difference between centrifuge and extractor

is that centrifuge is a device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed while extractor is any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.

As a verb centrifuge

is to rotate something in a centrifuge in order to separate its constituents.

centrifuge

English

Noun

(wikipedia centrifuge) (en noun)
  • A device in which a mixture of denser and lighter materials (normally dispersed in a liquid) is separated by being spun about a central axis at high speed.
  • (figuratively) An apparatus in which humans are spun to simulate acceleration in an aircraft or spacecraft.

    • Derived terms

    * gas centrifuge * ultracentrifuge

    Related terms

    * centrifugal force

    Verb

  • To rotate something in a centrifuge in order to separate its constituents

    • extractor

    English

    (wikipedia extractor)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others
  • (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture
  • (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber
  • (graph theory) a particular kind of bipartite graph
  • 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.