separator

[ sep-uh-rey-ter ]

/ ˈsɛp əˌreɪ tər /

a person or thing that separates.

any of various apparatus for separating one thing from another, as cream from milk, steam from water, or wheat from chaff.

Electricity. a device that prevents metal contact between plates of opposite charge in a storage battery.

Machinery. retainer¹(def 3).

Origin of separator

1600–10; < Late Latin sēparātor, equivalent to Latin sēparā(re) to separate + -tor -tor

pre·sep·a·ra·tor, noun

Once the separator is clipped onto the cup, you can flip it over the edge.

The 2012 Holiday Kitchen Gift Guide |Megan McArdle |December 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
When a buckling plate or plate with bulged active material breaks through the separator, Fig. 214.

The Automobile Storage Battery |O. A. Witte
The principle exhibited in a separator of grains and seeds is very neat.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 |Various
The separation is, however, best effected in a separator (fig. 75).

A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. |Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

He knew it for the morning butter-truck freighting from the separator house the daily output of the dairy.

The Little Lady of the Big House |Jack London
What is the principle of the separator that causes the cream to break away from the milk?

The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns |Roger Thompson Finlay

separator

/ (ˈsɛpəˌreɪtə) /

a person or thing that separates

a device for separating things into constituent parts, as milk into cream, etc

separatory, adjective