motor control | control of muscles |
current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
automobile horn car horn motor horn horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
camper camping bus motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
diesel diesel engine diesel motor | an internalombustion engine that burns heavy oil |
electric motor | a motor that converts electricity to mechanical work |
motor | machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion |
motor hotel motor inn motor lodge tourist court court | a hotel for motorists, provides direct access from rooms to parking area |
motor scooter scooter | a wheeled vehicle with small wheels and a low-powered gasoline engine geared to the rear wheel |
motor vehicle automotive vehicle | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails |
outboard motor outboard | internalombustion engine that mounts at stern of small boat |
power mower motor mower | a lawn mower powered by a gasoline motor |
PT boat mosquito boat mosquito craft motor torpedo boat | a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat, P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat |
starter starter motor starting motor | an electric motor for starting an engine |
stepper stepping motor | a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps |
synchronous motor | electric motor in which the speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power |
wiper motor | electric motor that moves the windshield wiper |
end-plate endplate motor end plate | the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle |
motor neuron efferent neuron motor nerve fiber motoneuron | a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord |
motor nerve efferent nerve efferent | a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands |
motor fiber efferent fiber | a nerve fiber that carries impulses toward the muscles or glands |
motor area motor region motor cortex Rolando's area excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
pyramidal tract pyramidal motor system corticospinal tract | any of the important motor nerves on each side of the central nervous system that run from the sensorimotor areas of the cortex through the brainstem to motor neurons of the cranial nerve nuclei and the ventral root of the spinal cord |
motor memory muscle memory | your memory for motor skills |
tidal flow tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
motor pool | a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed |
stream flow current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
Detroit Motor City Motown | the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port, center of the United States automobile industry, located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor |
motor | a nonspecific agent that imparts motion, happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action |
alternating current AC alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
current electric current | a flow of electricity through a conductor, the current was measured in amperes |
direct current DC direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
ocean current | the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction |
equatorial current | any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator |
North Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator |
South Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator |
Japan current Kuroshio current Kuroshio | a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean |
Peruvian current Humboldt current | a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west |
dynamic electricity current electricity | a flow of electric charge |
thermionic current | an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission |
wind air current current of air | air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, trees bent under the fierce winds, when there is no wind, row, the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere |
red currant garden current Ribes rubrum | cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries |
liquid assets current assets quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) |
checking account chequing account current account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |
current account | that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments |
current unit | a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time |
ataxia ataxy dyssynergia motor ataxia | inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements, unsteady movements and staggering gait |
motor aphasia Broca's aphasia ataxic aphasia expressive aphasia nonfluent aphasia | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired |