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Noun: collector  ku'lek-tu(r)
  1. A person who collects things
    "The collector compiled news stories from various sources for the website";
    - aggregator
     
  2. (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
     
  3. 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"
     
  4. 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