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Cycle
·noun An age; a long period of time.
II. Cycle ·noun An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
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cycle
A term generally applied to an interval of time in which the same phenomena recur.
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motor
mōtor, ōris, m. [moveo], a mover, that which keeps a thing in motion (poet.): cunarum fueras moto...
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Motor
·noun ·Alt. of <<Motorial>>.
II. Motor ·add. ·noun A motor car; an <<Automobile>>.
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motor
The prime mover in machinery.
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Carnot's cycle
·add. ·- An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four succe...
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Four-cycle
·add. ·noun A four-stroke cycle, as the Otto cycle, for an internal-combustion engine.
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Joule's cycle
·add. ·- The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold ch...
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Otto cycle
·add. ·- A four-stroke cycle for internal-combustion engines consisting of the following operations:...
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Two-cycle
·add. ·noun A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine.
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metonic cycle
A cycle of 19 years, which contains 235 lunations, and results in a correspondence of the solar and ...
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Diesel motor
·add. ·- A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so ...
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Excito-motor
·adj Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
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Ideo-motor
·adj Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant id...
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Incito-motor
·adj Inciting to motion;
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Induction motor
·add. ·- A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called th...
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Inhibitory-motor
·adj A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which...
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Motor car
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Motorcar>>.
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Motor generator
·add. ·- The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usual...
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Motor-driven
·add. ·adj Driven or actuated by a motor, ·esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor f...
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Psycho-motor
·adj Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.
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Series motor
·add. ·- A series-wound motor.
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Servo-motor
·add. ·noun A relay apparatus;.
II. Servo-motor ·add. ·noun In a Whitehead torpedo, a compressed-ai...
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Water motor
·- A water engine.
II. Water motor ·- A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by wate...
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cycle of eclipses
A period of about 6586 days, which is the time of a revolution of the moon's node; after the lapse o...
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