HARVESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harvester mean? 

• HARVESTER (noun)
  The noun HARVESTER has 2 senses:

1. someone who helps to gather the harvest

2. farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

  Familiarity information: HARVESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARVESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who helps to gather the harvest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

harvester; reaper

Hypernyms ("harvester" is a kind of...):

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harvester"):

vintager (a person who harvests grapes for making wine)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

harvester; reaper

Hypernyms ("harvester" is a kind of...):

farm machine (a machine used in farming)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harvester"):

binder; reaper binder (a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves)

combine (harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field)

header (a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon)

Derivation:

harvest (gather, as of natural products)

 Context examples 

He said one of the key challenges of a flexible harvester is to connect thermoelectric elements in series using reliable, low-resistivity interconnects.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

200 nanometres is especially significant because it is greater than the thickness of material needed to completely absorb ambient light, making these polymers more suitable as light harvesters for solar cells and photodetectors.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

When a harvester yarn is twisted or stretched, the volume of the carbon nanotube yarn decreases, bringing the electric charges on the yarn closer together and increasing their energy, Haines said.

(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency, said Mehmet Ozturk, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)