extruder

noun

ex·trud·er ik-ˈstrü-dər

plural extruders

: someone or something that extrudes something

specifically : a machine that shapes material by forcing it through a specially designed opening

a pasta extruder

There are recipes too, and for those who don't have a sausage extruder at home (who doesn't?) some of the sausages don't require casings. —

Karon Liu

[Zak] Wilson brought a 3-D printer, and … he concedes that watching the extruder swing back and forth, depositing tiny bits of material with each pass, is "maybe not a terrible analogy for our stay here." —

Tom Kizzia

Examples of extruder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s also an extruder tool for kids to design the ponies’ manes and tails. —

Laura Lu, Parents, 9 Sep. 2024 Put dough-paste into a rudimentary extruder: a cylinder with a bottom of perforated metal. —

Chantha Nguon, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024 In setting, put a spool of filament on the holder, and feed it into the extruder. —

PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024 The extruder melted thousands of tiny black pellets into a viscous goo. —

August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for extruder

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