Wetter vs Getter - What's the difference?
wetter | getter |
(wet)
Agent noun of wet; someone who wets something as part of some process.
A wetting agent or surfactant.
A bedwetter.
English agent nouns
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One who gets.
* 1838 , William Evans, ?Thomas Evans, The Friends' Library
(computing, programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
* {{quote-book
, year=2002
, author=James Steven Perry
, title=Java Management Extensions
, chapter=2
, isbn=0596002459
, page=47
, passage=A proper getter must return the type of its attribute.}}
(sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
* {{quote-book
, year=1979
, author=G. L. Weissler and Robert Warner Carlson
, title=Vacuum Physics and Technology
, chapter=5
, isbn=0124759149
, pages=194-195
, passage=Titanium has become the preferred getter for general vacuum-pumping applications because of its relatively high vapor pressure characteristic and its broad spectrum chemical reactivity.}}
(sciences) To remove gas by sorption.
* {{quote-book
, year=2003
, author=John F. O'Hanlon
, title=A Users Guide to Vacuum Technology
, chapter=14
, isbn=0471270520
, page=247
, passage=Many reactive metals rapidly pump large quantities of active gases because they getter (react with) the gases.}}
As nouns the difference between wetter and getter
is that wetter is agent noun of wet; someone who wets something as part of some process while getter is getter.As an adjective wetter
is (wet).wetter
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(en noun)getter
English
Noun
(en noun)- rich men and the eager getters of this world
