: a motor neuron together with the muscle fibers on which it acts
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The motor units are each equipped with a 6-axis motion-sensing IMU (inertial measurement unit) and a GPS module.—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Dec. 2024 But it could also be integrated into a slightly wider ebike motor unit as a one-piece variable speed drive unit, or stuck into a wind turbine generator, or a car, truck, tractor, snowmobile, industrial machine, whatever.—New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024 Diaz was hired by the Sheriff’s Office in 2004 and has been on the motor unit for 10 years.—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024 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
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