How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun

• Those bolts clamp blades to the rotor and bear the stress of wind and motion.
  — The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Put the pads and bracket back over the rotor and reinsert the bolts.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Most cars have a disk (called a rotor) attached to the wheel.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• The Blackhawk has a rotor section on top and in the back.
  — David Harris, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2021
• For disc brakes, remember to bed in the new pads to the rotor.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2021
• The damage suggests the rotor hit the surface on the way down.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
• As a result, the helicopter’s rotor struck the flight deck and the aircraft crashed over the side of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
• But the wave rotor is not the only unique thing about Gosse’s spaceship.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
• Strain on rotor shaft The torque meter measures the strain on the rotor shaft.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• As two of them jumped out to secure the aircraft, they were hit and killed by its rotor blades.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Forward thrust makes the rotor blades spin, and the blades alone provide lift and control.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• Its rotor, which provides lift, spins freely without the help of the engine.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 30 July 2023
• All but three of the cars built were powered by a Wankel, debuting with a three-rotor unit.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
• The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
• Mast removed the 1950s belts and rotors, refurbished them and put them back.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• Huge Wilwood brakes, with 16-inch rotors and six-piston calipers up front, take care of stopping.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2024
• The middle portion of the blade is the sweet spot, generating enough excess thrust to keep the rotor spinning against the drags of the tip and the root.
  — Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2020
• The transmission was found with the rotor head and blades still attached about 20 feet from the main wreckage, the report said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• In the Smøla test, researchers painted one rotor on four turbines black in 2013.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• And in spite of hitting a top speed of only 250 rpm, the fan is even more well-balanced than the rotor of a turbocharger.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
• In a hover, these props can balance out the torque from the main rotor much like a normal tail rotor does.
  — New Atlas, 24 July 2024
• Brakes: If the rotors are very hot, exposure to water can warp them.
  — Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• This flotation device served as the machine’s hull in the water, and was shaped like a trefoil to leave room for the airflow of the rotors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
• That side-to-side movement caused the helicopter’s main rotor to strike the flight deck, which in turn led to the helicopter going over the side of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2021
• The engine is nested on the seat back, with two rotor blades folded behind it.
  — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• Everybody who owns a car or truck should learn how to replace their brake pads and rotors.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Furthermore, both the brake pad and the brake rotor are wear items whose surfaces grind away over time, and your spray-on fix will grind off with it.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
• The white main rotor blade was fractured found in an adjacent field.
  — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Regardless of the aircraft, fly too high into air that isn’t dense enough to support the weight of the heli, and the rotor will droop and then stall.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2021
• Painting the turbine rotor blades black also has helped birds.
  — Susan Nugent, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024