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How to pronounce rotor in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms rotor coil
Type of armature
Type Words
Type of rotating mechanism
Has types main rotor, tail rotor, anti-torque rotor


there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine.
Type Words
Type of bar

Examples of rotor

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Moreover, the loss of the blade unbalances its rotor, causing massive vibration.
From the newscientist.com
As he did, the tail and rotor got caught on one of the compound's 12-foot walls.
From the suntimes.com
Its flight deck can handle helicopters and the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
From the kentucky.com
A wind turbine's major components include rotor blades, a gearbox and generator.
From the sciencedaily.com
If one rotor stalls, the V-22 will roll out of control and crash, Aldridge said.
From the newsobserver.com
Another nice touch is that two of the answers, ROTOR and MADAM, are palindromes.
From the wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com
The generator's stator is cooled by water while its rotor is cooled by hydrogen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The EDTA traps the copper ions attached to the rotor, allowing it to move again.
From the newscientist.com
In geometric algebra, a rotor and the objects it acts on live in the same space.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • The rotating armature of a motor or generator
  • The revolving bar of a distributor
  • Rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils; "there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine"
  • ROTOR was a huge and elaborate air defence radar system built by the British Government in the early 1950s to counter possible attack by Soviet bombers. The system was built up primarily of war-era radar systems, and was used only briefly before being replaced by more modern systems.
  • The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI), previously codenamed Rotor, is Microsoft's shared source implementation of the CLI, the core of .NET. ...
  • An antenna rotator is a device which is used to change the orientation of a directional antenna. Most antenna rotators have two parts, the rotator unit and the controller. ...
  • The disc brake or disk brake is a device for slowing or stopping the rotation of a wheel while it is in motion. A brake disc (or rotor in U.S. English) is usually made of cast iron, but may in some cases be made of composites such as reinforced carbon-carbon or ceramic-matrix composites. ...
  • A distributor is a device in the ignition system of an internal combustion engine that routes high voltage from the ignition coil to the spark plugs in the correct firing order. The first reliable battery operated ignition was developed by Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. ...
  • The rotor is the non-stationary part of a rotary electric motor, electric generator or alternator, which rotates because the wires and magnetic field of the motor are arranged so that a torque is developed about the rotor's axis. ...