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 Definitions of rotor  [ˈroʊ tər]  

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Definition of 'rotor' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) rotor
a rotating member of a mechanical or electrical device, as in an electric motor or distributor.

2.  rotor
a system of rotating airfoils, as the horizontal ones of a helicopter or of the compressor of a jet engine.

Etymology:  (1873; short for rotator)

Definition of 'rotor' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) rotor, rotor coil
the rotating armature of a motor or generator

2. (noun) rotor
the revolving bar of a distributor

3. (noun) rotor
rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils
"there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine"
Translation of 'rotor' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the rotating part of an engine, especially the blades of a helicopter.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rotor, draaivlerk Arabic flag Arabic: دَوّار في مُحَرِّك كَهْرُ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: ротор
Brazilian flag Brazilian: rotor Czech flag Czech: rotor German flag German: der Rotor
Danish flag Danish: rotor Greek flag Greek: φτερό έλικας Spanish flag Spanish: rotor
Estonian flag Estonian: rootor Farsi flag Farsi: آرمیچر؛ ملخ هلی کوپتر Finnish flag Finnish: roottori
French flag French: rotor Hebrew flag Hebrew: רוֹטוֹר Hindi flag Hindi: घूर्णक, रोटर
Croatian flag Croatian: rotor, horizontalni prope Hungarian flag Hungarian: forgórész Indonesian flag Indonesian: rotor
Icelandic flag Icelandic: snúður; þyrill Italian flag Italian: rotore Japanese flag Japanese: 回転翼
Korean flag Korean: 회전자, 회전익 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: rotorius Latvian flag Latvian: rotors
Malay flag Malay: bahagian enjin yang berpu Dutch flag Dutch: rotor Norwegian flag Norwegian: løpehjul, rotor
Polish flag Polish: wirnik Persian flag Persian: آرمیچر؛ ملخ هلی کوپتر Pashto flag Pashto: ارمیچر، د هلی کوپټر دمه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: rotor Romanian flag Romanian: rotor Russian flag Russian: ротор
Slovak flag Slovak: rotor Slovenian flag Slovenian: rotor Serbian flag Serbian: rotor
Swedish flag Swedish: rotor Thai flag Thai: ส่วนที่หมุนของเครื่องจักร Turkish flag Turkish: helikopter pervanesi
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 轉動件 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ротор Urdu flag Urdu: مشین کا وہ حصہ جو گردش کر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: rôto; cánh quạt Chinese flag Chinese: 转子，旋转器

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