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Dynamo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A generator, especially one for producing direct current.

n. An extremely energetic and forceful person: a vice president who was the real dynamo of the corporation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A dynamo-electric machine.

n. An energetic person.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A dynamo-electric machine.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An abbreviation of dynamo-electric machine. See electric.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature

Word Usage

"And standing atop that podium for the women's 5,000 meters in speedskating was a 22-year-old dynamo from the Czech Republic who also seems destined to be a history-maker."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

generator

Cross Reference

compound dynamo fly-wheel dynamo shunt dynamo characteristic of a dynamo load of a dynamo series dynamo

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