extruder

noun

ex·​trud·​er ik-ˈstrü-dər 

plural extruders

: someone or something that extrudes something

specifically : a machine that shapes material by forcing it through a specially designed opening

a pasta extruder

There are recipes too, and for those who don't have a sausage extruder at home (who doesn't?) some of the sausages don't require casings.

—Karon Liu

[Zak] Wilson brought a 3-D printer, and … he concedes that watching the extruder swing back and forth, depositing tiny bits of material with each pass, is "maybe not a terrible analogy for our stay here."

—Tom Kizzia

Examples of extruder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

His group was presenting the third iteration of their SME, short for shredder, molder, extruder. — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026

Less pronounced positive environmental results are observed with ABS, which demands higher temperatures for the print bed and extruder. — Joshua Pearce, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2026

Inside the nozzle, molten polymer streams merge from parallel extruders before deposition. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026

Word History

Etymology

extrude + -er entry 2

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for extruder

• intruder
• brooder
• cruder
• ruder