synchro unit

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/ ˈsɪŋ kroʊ /

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noun Electricity.

a type of alternating-current motor designed to maintain continuously, at some remote location, the same rotational angle that may be imposed by force upon the electrically connected rotating element of a similar motor.

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Origin of synchro unit

synchro, shortened form of synchronous

Words nearby synchro unit

synchronous speed, synchrony, synchroscope, synchrotron, synchrotron radiation, synchro unit, synchysis, synchysis scintillans, synclastic, synclinal, syncline

How to use synchro unit in a sentence

“Stay in formation,” a sergeant from the ceremonial unit said over a public address system to the cops along the street.
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My father was in an intelligence unit for the U.S. Navy, as he had been in World War II.
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Bitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product.
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They then become members of the ultra elite Unit 121, granted premium housing and a well-stocked cupboard.
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The unit is used to attack foreign networks, and either it or a sister organization was involved in the Sony hack.
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As a fighting unit they are on their last legs and when they will be set upon their feet again Lord K. knows.
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It is built on the "Unit" principle, and is divided between the extreme ends of the lofty structure.
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This gallery division, complete in itself, represents the latest type of Unit organ.
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As we came to each Battalion Headquarters we were told, "These are the remnants of the——," whatever the unit was.
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The first duty of father and mother to their child is to see that they are a unit on family government.
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