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noun, plural -mos.
1.
an electric generator, especially for direct current.
2.
an energetic, hardworking, forceful person.
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Dynamo
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example Sentences
- Power carried by wire from a neighboring electric, switch set the wheels in this dynamo whirring.
- Only when he tried to back-cast did he find himself hooked into a living, breathing dynamo.
- The variation must presumably arise from small changes in either of the two processes which give the dynamo action, or both.
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World English Dictionary
| dynamo (ˈdaɪnəˌməʊ) | |
| —n , pl -mos | |
| 1. | Compare generator a device for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy, esp one that produces direct current |
| 2. | informal an energetic hard-working person |
| [C19: short for dynamoelectric machine] | |
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Word Origin & History
dynamo
1882, short for Ger. dynamoelektrischemaschine, coined 1867 by its inventor, Ger. electrical engineer Werner Siemans (1816-92), from Gk. dynamis "power."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
dynamo- pref.
Force; energy: dynamogenesis.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
dynamo  (dī'nə-mō') Pronunciation Key
An electric generator, especially one that produces direct current. See more at generator. |
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Computing Dictionary
DYNAMO definition
DYNamic MOdels. A language for continuous simulation including economic, industrial and social systems, developed by Phyllis Fox and A.L. Pugh in 1959.
Versions include DYNAMO II, DYNAMO II/370, DYNAMO II/F, DYNAMO III and Gaming DYNAMO.
["DYNAMO User's Manual", A.L. Pugh, MIT Press 1976].
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