"electric motor" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-electric motor.wav [US] Forms: electric motors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} electric motor (plural electric motors)
  1. A motor that converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. Coordinate_terms: generator Translations (motor): электрарухаві́к (eljektraruxavík) [masculine] (Belarusian), електромото́р (elektromotór) [masculine] (Bulgarian), електри́чески двига́тел (elektríčeski dvigátel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), електродвига́тел (elektrodvigátel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 電動機 /电动机 (diàndòngjī) (Chinese Mandarin), elektromotor [masculine] (Czech), elektromotor [common-gender] (Danish), elmotor [common-gender] (Danish), elektromotor [masculine] (Dutch), sähkömoottori (Finnish), motore elettrico [masculine] (Italian), 電動機 (alt: でんどうき) (Japanese), електромо́тор (elektromótor) [masculine] (Macedonian), elektromotor [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), elmotor [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), elektrisk motor [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), elektromotor [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), elmotor [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), elektrisk motor [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), silnik elektryczny [masculine] (Polish), motor electric [neuter] (Romanian), электри́ческий мото́р (elektríčeskij motór) [masculine] (Russian), электромото́р (elektromotór) [masculine] (Russian), электродви́гатель (elektrodvígatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), dagisog (Tagalog), електродвигу́н (elektrodvyhún) [masculine] (Ukrainian), електромото́р (elektromotór) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.