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motors

  • plural
    of motor.
    motor
    noun
    a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.
  • present tense form
    of motor (3rd person singular).
    motor
    noun
    a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.

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Their roller kilns - which transport materials through every production phase inside industrial ovens - are powered by electric motors.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

General Motors is expanding its production of V-8 engines by scrapping an earlier plan to make EV motors at a plant in western New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

European space specialist ArianeGroup evacuated and secured sites in Le Haillan and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles where it makes rocket motors for its launchers and France’s M51 submarine-launched nuclear missile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Massive new outboard motors are unleashing unprecedented horsepower for owners who want bigger, faster vessels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

I wake to truck motors, the noise of the cotton pickers, the hollers to hurry.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett