Noun: collector ku'lek-tu(r)
- A person who collects things
"The collector compiled news stories from various sources for the website";
- aggregator
- (tax) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
"The tax collector visited businesses to ensure timely payments";
- gatherer, accumulator
- The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
"The collector voltage was measured to diagnose the transistor's performance"
- A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
"The impact collector provided valuable samples of extraterrestrial dust"; "Scientists studied the cosmic debris in the ancient collector crater"
Derived forms: collectors
Type of: actor, crater, doer, electrode, worker
Part of: electronic transistor, junction transistor, transistor
Encyclopedia: Collector, New South Wales