Definitions for rotors

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rotors ro·tor

Spelling: [roh-ter]

IPA: /ˈroʊ tər/

Rotors is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in rotors (oorrst).

Definitions for rotors

noun

1. Electricity. a rotating member of a machine. Compare stator (def 1).
2. Aeronautics. a system of rotating airfoils, as the horizontal ones of a helicopter or of the compressor of a jet engine.
3. any of a number of tall, cylindrical devices mounted on a special ship (rotor ship) and rotated in such a way that the Magnus effect of wind impinging on the cylinders is used to drive and maneuver the vessel.
4. (in a self-winding watch) a weight eccentrically mounted on an arbor for keeping the mainspring wound.

Origin of rotors

First recorded in 1873; short for rotator

Examples for rotors

So serious is this heat that it can distort a major APUS engine component, the rotor shaft, and cause significant damage.

At each end is a bearing or support in which the rotor or moving part is held and in which it can turn freely.

Tesla further explained that the 110-horsepower turbine represented a single stage engine, or one composed simply of one rotor.

The shaft of a little one twelfth horsepower motor adjoining was connected with the rotor through the centre of the casing.

Then you ask Tom to send a plane back to drop off my cap and rotor.

The field system is called the stator, and the armature the rotor.

The rotor of a variometer or variocoupler is a rotating coil.

In this A is the cylinder or casing, B the spindle or rotor, and C the blades.

There are rings of blades round the rotor, tightly fixed to its surface.

These dummy pistons are shown at the near end of the rotor in Fig. 35.