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What does erector mean?

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Noun
  1. A person who, or a device which erects.
  2. (anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
  3. An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
  4. (astronautics) A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.
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Two independent structural finite element models were developed one by the designer and another by the erector.
So he went to night school to study engineering and became a steel erector.
To erect the trusses, the steel erector used twelve 78-ft-tall shoring towers, one under each tip of each cantilever.
Close-grip work also helps improve posture and body carriage by strengthening the mid-back muscles, rhomboids and erector spinae.
When the erector muscle contracts, the outer coat hairs stand up to trap the air and cause pressure on the sebaceous gland releasing the suint.
The erector then used the trichord's upper chords to support a work platform for the arch.

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