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rotor

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Mechanical, Air
ro·tor /ˈrəʊtə $ ˈroʊtər/ noun [countable] technical  1. TEMa part of a machine that turns around on a central point 〔机器的〕旋转部分,转子2. helicopter.jpg (also rotor blade)TTA the long flat part that turns around and around on top of a helicopter 〔直升机的〕(水平)旋翼
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rotorThe experimental results that encouraged the financiers to support a rotor ship were truly spectacular.This may require new materials - the experimental rotor is built of wood, which Wortmann says has the best damping.Dark mosquito shadows across the hilltops, rotor blades beating the air, stirring the ground, pressing down.The swirling wind from my rotors whipped the fatigues of interested watchers to a blur.The turbine whined familiarly and the rotors blurred above the cabin.I skidded ten feet when I hit, and the rotors quietly slowed and stopped.When I flared, the rotor wash stirred up the dust and everything vanished.The young man was killed after becoming entangled in the unguarded rotors of a power harrow while attempting to remove a stone.
Origin rotor (1800-1900) rotator something that rotates ((17-21 centuries)), from Latin, from rotare; → ROTATE
ro·tor nounChineseSyllable
a machine Corpus turns around a part of that


rotor
rotor /ˈrəʊtə $ ˈroʊtər/ noun [countable] technical
 Date: 1800-1900
 Origin: rotator 'something that rotates' (17-21 centuries), from Latin, from rotare; rotate

1. a part of a machine that turns around on a central point
2. (also rotor blade) the long flat part that turns around and around on top of a helicopter


rotorBrE /ˈrəʊtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈroʊtər/ 🔊 noun
a part of a machine that turns around a central point (机器的)转子,转动部件rotor blades on a helicopter直升机的旋翼桨叶