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Convertor or Converter - What's the difference?

convertor | converter |

As nouns the difference between convertor and converter

is that convertor is a person who, or a thing that converts while converter is a person or thing that converts.

convertor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who, or a thing that converts
  • # A furnace in which pig iron is converted to steel
  • # A rectifier that converts alternating current to direct current
  • # A device that converts an analogue to a digital signal, or vice versa
  • # A reaction chamber in which exhaust gases are catalytically converted to carbon dioxide
  • See also

    * converter ----

    converter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that converts.
  • A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
  • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * convertor

    Anagrams

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