motor
电机
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Definitions
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- : a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
- : any self-powered vehicle.
- : a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.
- : Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.
- : motors, stocks or bonds in automobile companies.
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- : pertaining to or operated by a motor.
- : of, for, by, or pertaining to motor vehicles: motor freight.
- : designed or for automobiles, their drivers, or their passengers: The hotel has a motor lobby in its parking garage for picking up and discharging passengers.
- : causing or producing motion.
- : Physiology. conveying an impulse that results or tends to result in motion, as a nerve.
- : Psychology, Physiology.Also motoric. of, relating to, or involving muscular movement: a motor response; motor images.
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- : to ride or travel in an automobile; drive: They motored up the coast.
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- : Chiefly British. to drive or transport by car: He motored his son to school.
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Examples
When a fan is driven by a motor, air enters the back and accelerates out the front.
Though air pollution vastly improved in recent decades—thanks largely to technology and policy aimed at motor vehicles—it remains a problem in many large cities.
For another, they’re smart cookies, meaning they can be trained to walk on a treadmill while the implant records from their motor cortex to predict the movement of each joint.
Most vehicles today house internal-combustion engines, but cars with electric motors are gaining ground.
Whatever the class, federal law restricts “low speed electric bicycle” motors with 750 watts of power.
They can hear the sound of his boat's motor, growing louder as it comes over the horizon.
The female fan base tends to hold steady at 38 percent, according to Amanda Regan, a spokeswoman for Feld Motor Sports.
The power delivered by the rocket motor was uneven and tricky to control.
The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.
Rolls Royce Motor Cars is a subsidiary of BMW, who make the engines.
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
Under these conditions, the large motor B collapses and the pull-down P (which is connected with the organ pallet) rises.
A big gray sedan stood in the middle of the road, the motor idling.
The action of the springs now serves to close the valves V, V1, and to open out the motor M, whereupon the process is repeated.
As the valve V1 is open, the sound waves formed in the pipe P1 will govern the speed of vibration of the motor M.