Definitions for rotor

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rotor ro·tor

Spelling: [roh-ter]

IPA: /ˈroʊ tər/

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

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in rotor (oorrt).

Definitions for rotor

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 rotor

First recorded in 1873; short for rotator

Examples for rotor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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