from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A generator, especially one for producing direct current.
noun An extremely energetic and forceful person.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun An abbreviation of dynamo-electric machine. See electric.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A dynamo-electric machine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A dynamo-electric machine.
noun An energetic person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Short for dynamoelectric machine.]
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A shortening of dynamo-electric machine. The element dynamo- is ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dunamis, "power").
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The dynamo is a modern four-pole machine, compound-wound, with a rated output of 46 amperes, at 125 volts -- in other words a dynamo of 5.75 kilowatts capacity, or 7.7 electrical horsepower.
In other Siriano news, the pint-sized designing dynamo is eagerly awaiting the fall debut of his new shoe line, which will be available exclusively at Payless.
Oh, and it turns out the little dynamo is also a Beckham-like soccer player, something Berg discovered quite by accident when she casually kicked a soccer ball in Spright's direction and the dog, using chest, head and any other useful body part, executed an impressive block and slammed it forward.
And standing atop that podium for the women's 5,000 meters in speedskating was a 22-year-old dynamo from the Czech Republic who also seems destined to be a history-maker.
Each sensory nerve has, at its end, a bit of machinery designed for the transformation of certain kinds of external energy into nervous energy, just as a dynamo is a machine for transforming motion into electricity.
When the dynamo is a part of the welding plant it should be placed as close to the welding machine as possible, because the length of the wire used affects the voltage appreciably.
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