erector
nounEtymology From Latin ērigō (“to raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect + -or.
1
A person who, or a device which erects.
- At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.2014, Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building:
3
An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
4
Aerospace, Astronautics, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.
- Derived terms
- erector spinae, piloerector