getter
/ˈɡɛtə
/noun
1 [in combination] A person or thing that gets a specified desirable thing: an attention-getter a vote-getter...
- The record-breaking knock saw him become the highest run getter for India.TI
- And whoever got 15 or 20 and was the high vote getter would become the governor of California.
- Jack finished that 1997 ride in sixth place and established himself as a regular top 10 place getter in the years following.
2 Electronics & Physics A substance used to remove residual gas from a vacuum tube, or impurities or defects from a semiconductor crystal.Ar was cleaned with Zr-Ti getters.
