Initiator

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Initiator \In*i"ti*a`tor\, n. [L.]
     One who initiates.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  initiator
       n : a person who initiates a course of action [syn: {instigator}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "initiator":
     ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author,
     begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman,
     creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer,
     engineer, executor, executrix, father, founder, generator, grower,
     inaugurator, industrialist, instigator, institutor, introducer,
     inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master,
     master craftsman, mother, organizer, originator, past master,
     planner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer,
     shaper, sire, smith, wright
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  initiator
       
          {SCSI initiator}