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ser⋅vo

  [sur-voh] adjective, noun, plural -vos, verb, -voed, -vo⋅ing.
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–adjective
1. acting as part of a servomechanism: servo amplifier.
2. pertaining to or having to do with servomechanisms: servo engineer.
3. noting the action of certain mechanisms, as brakes, that are set in operation by other mechanisms but which themselves augment the force of that action by the way in which they operate.
–noun
4. Informal. servomechanism.
–verb (used with object)
5. to connect (a mechanism) to another as a servomechanism.
Origin:
1945–50; independent use of servo-, taken as an adj., or shortening of words formed with it
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servo-

 
a combining form used in the names of devices or operations that employ a servomechanism: servocontrol.
Origin:
extracted from servomotor
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ser·vo   (sûr'vō)   
n.   pl. ser·vos

  1. A servomechanism.

  2. A servomotor.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

servo 
1910, from servo-motor (1889), from Fr. servo-moteur (1873), ult. from L. servus "slave" (see serve) + motor "mover" (see motor).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
servo

  1. servomechanism

  2. servomotor

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
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