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Ejector vs Eductor - What's the difference?

ejector | eductor |

As nouns the difference between ejector and eductor

is that ejector is one who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses while eductor is one who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.

ejector

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
  • (mechanics) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. {Ejector condenser} (Steam]] [[engine, Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
  • ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
  • That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
  • A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.

    • eductor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.
    • Stimulus must be called an eductor of vital ether. — E. Darwin.
    (Webster 1913)