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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Calorimotor :: Calorimotor (n.) A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects..
Inhibitory-motor :: Inhibitory-motor (a.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue..
Naze :: Naze (n.) A promotory or headland.
Preataxic :: Preataxic (a.) Occurring before the symptom ataxia has developed; -- applied to the early symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water..
Motor :: Motor (n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power..
Rheomotor :: Rheomotor (n.) Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated.
Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (n.) The oculomotor nerve.
Excito-motor :: Excito-motor (a.) Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes..
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..
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..
Motory :: Motory (n.) Alt. of Motoria.
Terminal :: Terminal (n.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole..
Efferent :: Efferent (a.) Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent..
Ideo-motion :: Ideo-motion (n.) An ideo-motor movement.
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..
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..
Akinesia :: Akinesia (n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.
Nervimotor :: Nervimotor (n.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
Horse Power :: Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor..
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