electric motor

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   a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work

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Questions about electric motor

What does electric motor mean?

electric motor means "a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work".

Is electric motor a common word?

electric motor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.