Definition of motor

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Motor (n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work..

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Exodic :: Exodic (a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Kinetic :: Kinetic (q.) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent..
Naze :: Naze (n.) A promotory or headland.
Motory :: Motory (n.) Alt. of Motoria.
Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.
Electromotor :: Electromotor (n.) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
Manumotor :: Manumotor (n.) A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it..
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..
Nervimotor :: Nervimotor (n.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
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..
Preataxic :: Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Motorial :: Motorial (n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion..
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..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake..
Depressomotor :: Depressomotor (a.) Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity..
Horse Power :: Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor..
Excito-motion :: Excito-motion (n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
Magnetomotor :: Magnetomotor (n.) A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena..
Develop :: Develop (v. t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power..
Mover :: Mover (n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor..
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