rotor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From an irregular clipping of rotator, originally in mathematics, coined by English mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford based on vector, see quotations. Doublet of rota and ruote.
Inflected forms:
form: rotors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
pos: noun
examples: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
gloss: A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
pos: noun
gloss: A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric motor, generator, alternator, or pump.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
pos: noun
examples: A glider instructor, who had been in the COS area for more than 25 years, was interviewed. He stated that around 1200 on the day of the accident, he observed a rotor hit the ground with estimated wind speeds of 70 to 80 miles per hour.
gloss: A quantity having magnitude, direction, and position.
pos: noun
examples: These quantities are unit lengths measured anywhere on the axes in the positive directions. They have magnitude, direction, and position, and are thus what I have called rotors (short for rotators) to distinguish them from vectors, which have magnitude and direction but no position.
gloss: The set of cells within an oscillator that switch between being alive and dead over the course of the oscillator's period.
pos: noun
examples: The following figure shows examples of the most versatile class of these oscillators. The first emulates the p10 shown above; the second has period 62 and a rotor of size 10.
The problem of determining the asymptotic colouring for a cyclic pattern from a given initial black and white pattern is completely solved. The analysis leads to the proposal of the distinction between primary and secondary rotor cells (i.e. a refinement of the classical stator-rotor distinction).
In B37/S23, it goes symmetrical after 10 ticks, and produces a familiar pair of B-heptominoes after 23 ticks (the next generation after this can be found in the rotor of a standard B3/S23 p46 oscillator):
gloss: An amusement park and carnival ride consisting of a rotating cylindrical chamber in which centrifugal force adheres riders to the wall as the floor drops away, creating a sensation of defying gravity.
pos: noun
Related words: stator
Derived words: Flettner rotor
hexarotor
locked rotor amp
mountain rotor
multirotor
open rotor
proprotor
quadrotor
rotor brake
rotor burst
rotor cloud
rotorcraft
rotored
rotor kite
rotorless
rotor machine
rotor sail
rotorstator
tiltrotor
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَمُود نَاقِل الْحَرَكَة
roman: ʕamūd nāqil al-ḥaraka
lang: Basque
word: errotore
lang: Bulgarian
word: ротор
roman: rotor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 轉子 /转子
roman: zhuànzǐ
lang: Czech
word: rotor
lang: Finnish
word: roottori
lang: Finnish
word: pyörijä
lang: French
word: rotor
lang: German
word: Rotor
lang: Greek
word: δρομέας
roman: droméas
lang: Italian
word: rotore
lang: Japanese
word: ローター
roman: rōtā
lang: Japanese
word: 回転子
roman: kaitenshi
lang: Macedonian
word: ротор
roman: rotor
lang: Māori
word: paetāwhirowhiro
lang: Norwegian
word: rotor
lang: Polish
word: wirnik
lang: Polish
word: rotor
lang: Portuguese
word: rotor
lang: Romanian
word: rotor
lang: Russian
word: ро́тор
roman: rótor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ротор
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rotor
lang: Spanish
word: rotor
lang: Tagalog
word: painog
lang: Ukrainian
word: ро́тор
roman: rótor