Definition of motor

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Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power..

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Brush :: Brush (n.) A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus..
Dynamometer :: Dynamometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery..
Motor :: Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power..
Terebrating :: Terebrating (a.) Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia..
Ideo-motion :: Ideo-motion (n.) An ideo-motor movement.
Water Motor :: Water motor () A water engine.
Locomotor :: Locomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
Elater :: Elater (n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative..
Electromotor :: Electromotor (n.) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
Motor :: Motor (n.) Alt. of Motoria.
Nervimotor :: Nervimotor (n.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.
Psycho-motor :: Psycho-motor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.
Excito-motor :: Excito-motor (a.) Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes..
Kinesodic :: Kinesodic (a.) Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly..
Irritation :: Irritation (n.) The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation..
Ideo-motor :: Ideo-motor (a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence..
Excito-motion :: Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
Excito-motory :: Excito-motory (a.) Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition..
Mover :: Mover (n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor..
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