initiator

See also: Initiator

English

Etymology

initiate +‎ -or

Noun

initiator (plural initiators)

One who initiates.
(chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
(military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to trigger a fission chain reaction.
(computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
(medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.

Translations

one who initiates

Arabic: مُبَادِر‎ (mubādir)
Azerbaijani: təşəbbüskar
Bulgarian: инициатор (bg) m (iniciator)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 创办者，发起人
Dutch: initiator (nl) m
Finnish: alullepanija (fi), aloittaja (fi), käynnistäjä (fi)
French: initiateur (fr) m, initiatrice (fr) f
German: Initiator (de) m, Initiatorin (de) f
Italian: iniziatore (it) m, iniziatrice (it) f
Japanese: 言い出しっ屁 (いいだしっぺ, iidashippe)
Russian: инициа́тор (ru) m (iniciátor), основополо́жник (ru) m (osnovopolóžnik)

chemistry: substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization

Finnish: käynnistäjä (fi)
German: Initiator (de) m

military: component of a nuclear weapon

Finnish: laukaisin (fi)

computing: task that initiates multiple jobs

medicine: material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer

Finnish: käynnistäjä (fi), initiaattori

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Italian: iniziatore (it) m

Latin

Verb

initiātor

second/third-person singular future passive imperative of initiō

References

“initiator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
initiator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
initiator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette