- Look up
rotor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Rotor may
refer to:
Rotor (electric), the non-stationary part of an
alternator or
electric motor, operating...
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ROTOR was an
elaborate air
defence radar system built by the
British Government in the
early 1950s to
counter possible attack by
Soviet bombers. To get...
- On a helicopter, the main
rotor or
rotor system is the
combination of
several rotary wings (
rotor blades) with a
control system, that
generates the aerodynamic...
- the
armature on the
rotor, but
these may be reversed. The
rotor is the
moving part that
delivers the
mechanical power. The
rotor typically holds conductors...
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encipher the most top-secret messages. The
Enigma has an
electromechanical rotor mechanism that
scrambles the 26
letters of the alphabet. In
typical use...
- The
rotor is a
moving component of an
electromagnetic system in the
electric motor,
electric generator, or alternator. Its
rotation is due to the interaction...
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rotorcraft in
which lift and
thrust are
supplied by
horizontally spinning rotors. This
allows the
helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and...
- In rotordynamics, the
rigid rotor is a
mechanical model of
rotating systems. An
arbitrary rigid rotor is a 3-dimensional
rigid object, such as a top....
- to
generate lift. The ****embly of
several rotor blades mounted on a
single mast is
referred to as a
rotor. The
International Civil Aviation Organization...
- A transverse-
rotor aircraft is an
aircraft with two
large horizontal rotor ****emblies
mounted side by side. Single-
rotor helicopters (unicopters) need...
