NASA officials concluded the debris was likely a plastic separator, or shim, from the shuttle's ceramic tile heat shield.
Source: tatoeba (10806923)
Separator
//ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ//
Synonyms for "separator" (17 found)
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1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
3 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 11 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- verdeler noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
Bulgarian
2 entries- разделител noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- сепаратор noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
Finnish
3 entries- erotin noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- erotin noun (device for removing one substance from another)
- separaattori noun (device for removing one substance from another)
German
1 entries- Abscheider noun (device for removing one substance from another)
Hungarian
4 entries- elválasztó noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- elválasztó noun (one who separates)
- szétválasztó noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- szétválasztó noun (one who separates)
Japanese
3 entries- 仕切り noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- 分離器 noun (device for removing one substance from another)
- 分離者 noun (one who separates)
Māori
2 entries- hepareita noun (device for removing one substance from another)
- pūwhakawehe noun (device for removing one substance from another)
Norman
1 entries- machinne à s'pather noun (device for removing one substance from another)
Portuguese
2 entries- separador noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- separador noun (device for removing one substance from another)
Romanian
3 entries- separator noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- separator noun (device for removing one substance from another)
- separator noun (one who separates)
Swedish
4 entries- avbalkning noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- separator noun (an object located between two or more things and hence separating them)
- separator noun (device for removing one substance from another)
- separatorskötare noun (one who separates)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Would you please place a separator bar between your purchases and mine?
Source: tatoeba (12980491)
When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart.
Source: wiktionary
Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.