separator

separate +‎ -or

separator (plural separators)

1. An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
   • 1998, Elisa Ferri, Lisa Kenny, Dana Epstein, Style on Hand: Perfect Nail and Skin Care, page 44:

     When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart.

2. A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
3. One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.
   • 1979 December 8, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Brill”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 15:

     Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one

• cyclone separator

• Paratores, sea parrot, sea-parrot

sēparātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of sēparō

• “separator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• separator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from English separator.[1]

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.paˈra.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: se‧pa‧ra‧tor

separator m inan

1. separator (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
2. separator (a device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk)

• separator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• separator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “separator”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 67
• separator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French séparateur, from Latin separator.

separator n (plural separatori)

1. separator