Generator

A generator refers to several things:

• Electrical generator
• Generator (song), a song of The Foo Fighters
• Generator (album), an album by punk band Bad Religion, and its opening track
• Generator (band), a band from Minnesota
• Generator (mathematics), any of several closely related usages in mathematics.

In computing:

• Generator (computer science), a specialized coroutine that acts like an iterator
• A program which produces a stream of data
• Pseudorandom number generator, producer of a sequence of random or nearly-random numbers
• Prime number generator, a producer of the ordered sequence of prime numbers
• A zero-generator, the pseudo-device /dev/zero outputs a never ending stream of zero-valued bytes
• chargen, a network character generator communications protocol (see RFC 864).
• Code generator, a program which creates source code as its output
• anything that creates source code automatically in generative programming
• Natural language generator, a program that produces human language from a machine representation
• Generator matrix, a matrix whose rows can generate all the elements of a linear code