Associations to the word «Getter»

Wiktionary

GETTER, noun. One who gets.
GETTER, noun. (computing) (programming) A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
GETTER, noun. (sciences) A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
GETTER, verb. (sciences) To remove gas by sorption.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky