Meaning of -or | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Creates an agent noun, often from a verb, indicating a person or object (often machines or parts of them) that do the verb or part of speech with which they are formed.
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2. Used to form nouns of quality, state, or condition.
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3. Appended to the names of members of classes of components, especially those that have an extensive property name of the same root suffixed with -ance
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Equivalents

Examples

“settle + -or → settlor”

“survive + -or → survivor”

“Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.”

“err + -or → error”

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