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noun 
  1. An apparatus, equipment, etc, to convert or change energy from one form to another.
  2. A machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
  3. One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.
  4. An apparatus in which vapour or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort etc.
  5. (music) The principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- see also generating tone.
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