Associations to the word «Ejector»

Wiktionary

EJECTOR, noun. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
EJECTOR, noun. (mechanics) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. {Ejector condenser} (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
EJECTOR, noun. Ejector seat: a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute.
EJECTOR, noun. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.
EJECTOR, noun. A lever for removing circuit boards from an electronic chassis.
EJECTOR SEAT, noun. A seat in a military aircraft which allows the pilot or other crew members to quickly escape in the case of emergency using an explosive charge or rockets.

Dictionary definition

EJECTOR, noun. A person who ousts or supplants someone else.
EJECTOR, noun. A mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope