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adopter
接受管
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
A·dopt·er
n.
1.
One
who
adopts
.
2.
Chem.
A
receiver
,
with
two
necks
,
opposite
to
each
other
,
one
of
which
admits
the
neck
of
a
retort
,
and
the
other
is
joined
to
another
receiver
.
It
is
used
in
distillations
,
to
give
more
space
to
elastic
vapors
,
to
increase
the
length
of
the
neck
of
a
retort
,
or
to
unite
two
vessels
whose
openings
have
different
diameters
. [
Written
also
adapter
.]
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
adopter
n
:
a
person
who
adopts
a
child
of
other
parents
as
his
or
her
own
child
[
syn
:
adoptive parent
]
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