1. (

• collector ,
• aggregator

) a person who collects things ;

2. (

• collector ,
• gatherer ,
• accumulator

) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) ;

3. (

• collector

) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth ;

4. (

• collector

) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes ;