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electric motor
electric motor
noun
- a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical torque
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Word History and Origins
Origin of electric motor1
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Example Sentences
It has this small electric motor with this incredible compound gear that retrieves a steel cable.
In the same year Jacobi, in Germany, propelled a boat by electricity using an electric motor of his own invention.
Davenport came as near to solving the problem of an electric motor as was possible without the invention of Pacinotti.
A small voltaic battery, placed under the machine, serves to work the electric motor, and has to be replenished from time to time.
Sometime you may have to decide between different methods—man, horse, gasoline engine or electric motor power.
The electric motor is a machine which transforms the energy of an electric current into mechanical energy or motion.
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