A destroyer. (R.) "Fire, the destructor and the artificial death of things."
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A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse; specif. (Sewage Disposal), A furnace (called in full refuse destructor) in which the more solid constituents of sewage are burnt. Destructors are often so constructed as to utilize refuse as fuel.
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(Computers) In object-oriented programming, a function which destroys an object which was previously created by a different function.
... he stands as far above them as they above the lowest worm. And this leads us to the consideration of man, not merely as a mammal, but as "Anthropos," Homo sapiens, although he often degenerates into "Simia destructor." ... — The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler
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