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  • noun A microscopic motor

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ motor

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Examples

  • Since the first micromotor, .0001 of an inch across, was made in 1988, the devices have achieved more than 15,000 rpm (car engines top out at about 7,000 rpm) and have run for nine months.

    Welcome To Lilliput 2008

  • While others have tried and failed to create microrobots for arterial travel, Friend believes his team will succeed because they are the first to exploit piezoelectric materials -- crystals that create an electric charge when mechanically stressed -- in their micromotor design.

    Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 Emmet Cole 2007

  • (The exceptions are a couple of lesser Hong Kong billionaires, Patrick Wang of micromotor maker Johnson Electric and Michael Ying of clothing business Esprit, whose money was made in recent years in manufacturing in mainland China.)

    Ties That Bind 2007

  • A micromotor and in grado di fargli to effect its beautiful daily revolution.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • A micromotor and in grado di fargli to effect its beautiful daily revolution.

    This goodly frame, the earth Ray Girvan 2004

  • CPU of a PC, copperwire in a micromotor, energy cost unaffected.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Sun Bin 2005

  • CPU of a PC, copperwire in a micromotor, energy cost unaffected.

    After the RMB Reval Sun Bin 2005

  • "A micromotor attached to a major artery within the brain severs the artery if it receives a command by either the MINN or the central AI system."

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • "We needed a tiny little motor to place at the end of a catheter, and we realized we could build a micromotor much smaller for cheaper-and with less effort-using this method."

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • As a childhood cancer survivor and creator of the world's longest annual charity bike ride-the Texas 4,000 for Cancer, which runs from Austin to Alaska-he hopes the micromotor will eventually find uses in cancer imaging.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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