How to Use extruder in a Sentence

extruder

noun
  • The extruder gears and rods are made from hardened steel, which resists wear.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Then, too, it was not made with an ordinary food extruder, like most meat substitutes on the market today.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • Smaller extruders offer control but struggle to scale.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Both models share the same extruder, heat bed, acceleration, and filament flow.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Every component, from the extruder to the airflow system, feels designed for real-world use rather than demonstration.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Large extruders push high volumes of material but add weight and reduce accuracy.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Food extruders, which have been producing breakfast cereals, pasta, snacks, and pet foods for decades, use high pressures and temperatures to squeeze a doughy mixture through a tube.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • Users can activate or deactivate extruders as needed.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The enclosed chamber offers very good heat regulation with an extruder fan, a part-cooling fan, an auxiliary part-cooling fan, and a fan to regulate the chamber.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2025
  • His group was presenting the third iteration of their SME, short for shredder, molder, extruder.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • The extruder, the sensors, the display, and even the LED illumination all got updates.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Inside the nozzle, molten polymer streams merge from parallel extruders before deposition.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The new servo extruder continuously samples position and resistance at a rate of 20KHz.
    — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The approach delivers the speed of large extruders while retaining precision, flexibility, and multi-material control.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
  • While the first layer is going down, the H2S is monitoring the filament coming out of the extruder and automatically adjusting things like pressure advance to get an ideal adhesion.
    — PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Bambu Lab states that the servo motor in the H2S extruder delivers up to 22 pounds of force with an impressive 20KHz positioning accuracy.
    — PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
  • This video outlines how Caracol integrates multi-axis robotics, modular extruders, and proprietary software to support production in sectors like aerospace, marine, automotive, and architecture.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Its FibreSeeker 3 desktop machine uses a dual-extruder system that works with continuous fibers and comes with the necessary slicing software to make and print parts that are way stronger than conventional 3D printers' results, at a fraction of the price.
    — New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In fact, traditional extruders use slightly less thermal energy, but the Couette machinery uses 90 percent less mechanical energy, Van der Goot says, and that’s where the technology’s main energy and cost savings come from.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • Its design clearly follows the trail Bambu Lab helped blaze with the Editors' Choice-winning A1, but Creality adds a few thoughtful refinements, including a high-quality extruder and a filament-changing system designed to reduce purge waste.
    — Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026

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