Generator

(gen-ür-a'tur.) [L., a begetter.] (Mach.) In steam-engines, a ve el by which steam is generated. - (Mus.) The principal sound or sounds which cause the production of others. Thus the lowest C for the treble of the piano-forte, besides its octave, will strike an at. tent ive ear with its twelfth above, or Gin alt, and with its seventeenth above, or E in alt. Hence, C is called their generator, the Gand E its products or harmonics. [s. 400]