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Each motor unit has a rotary encoder, tension sensor, and current and temperature sensing circuit.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2010
Once your ice is frozen, put it into the ice crusher cup, and place the motor unit on top.
—Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2023
The motor system undergoes a second profound remodeling in older people during healthy ageing that results in further domination of slow muscle fibers and slowing down motor unit activity, simulating the condition of hypergravitation (G>1).
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2013
In normal gravitation, comfortable temperature and normoxia decreases the motor unit activity (MU) firing rate to a level, characteristic for the regular Earth condition.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2013
The shortage has affected the special operations unit, which investigates violent crimes; the motor unit, which provides traffic enforcement; the neighborhood policing division, which coordinates homeless outreach efforts, and others.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2022
The Fazua’s seven-pound battery-motor unit is slim, and so sleek in its integration that most passersby assume it’s a regular bike, not an e-bike.
—Kelly Bastone, Outside Online, 24 July 2021
Brown, 70, was the first woman to ride a Harley-Davidson in the motor unit.
—Washington Post, 26 July 2021
During his decades-long career as a police officer, Haas has served on the department's honor guard, motor unit and the police union's executive board.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Motor unit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motor%20unit. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
motor unit
noun
: a motor neuron together with the muscle fibers on which it acts
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