English Dictionary

-or

/ə/

suffix

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.

actor

意味（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.

survive + -or → survivor

意味（2）

(electrical science) 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

Resistors possess resistance and inductors possess inductance.