synchronous motor

1. 1.

   electric motor in which the speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power

   Broaderelectric motor

Questions about synchronous motor

What does synchronous motor mean?

synchronous motor means "electric motor in which the speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power".

Is synchronous motor a common word?

synchronous 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.