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Extractor vs Extructor - What's the difference?

extractor | extructor |

As nouns the difference between extractor and extructor

is that extractor is any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others while extructor is (obsolete) a builder.

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.

    • extructor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A builder.
    • (Bailey)
    (Webster 1913)