extractor

  1. Noun.  Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
  2. Noun.  (chemistry) An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
  3. Noun.  A part of a gun that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
  4. Noun.  (graph theory) a particular kind of bipartite graph.

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