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A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
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That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
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A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.
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A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.
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Specifically, to support, as a motion or proposal, by adding one's voice to that of the mover or proposer.
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One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.
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The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
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The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
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One who makes a motion; a mover.
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A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.
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A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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That which moves; a mover.
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In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
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A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
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An efficient cause; a prime mover.
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A mover.
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