starting motor

Questions about starting motor

What does starting motor mean?

starting motor means "an electric motor for starting an engine".

What is another word for starting motor?

Close synonyms include starter, starter motor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is starting motor a common word?

starting 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.