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Electromotor n.

(Physics) A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.

(Mech.) An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Electromotor" Quotes from Famous Books

... of 1 square mm. in section at the temperature of 0 deg.C. An international commission will be charged with ascertaining for practice, by means of new experiments, the height of this column of mercury representing the ohm. The name ampere will be given to the current produced by the electromotor force of 1 volt in a circuit whose resistance is 1 ohm. Coulomb is the quantity of electricity defined by the condition that in the current of an ampere the section of the conductor is traversed by a coulomb per second. Farad is the capacity defined by the condition ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 • Various

... by the boat with this battery did not reach one mile and a quarter per hour; when 64 Grove cells were substituted, the speed came to two and a quarter miles per hour; the boat was 38 feet long. 7 beam, and 3 feet deep. The electromotor was invented by Professor Jacobi; it virtually consisted of two disks, one of which was stationary, and carried a number of electromagnets, while the other disk was provided with pieces of iron serving as armatures to the pole pieces of the electromagnets, which ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 • Various