MEANING
An electric motor whose operating rotor speed is synchronized with the rotating magnetic field.
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- a synchronous motor
- synchronous motor speed
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The synchronous motor held its operating speed while the load remained within limits.
The engineer checked the synchronous motor before changing the supply frequency.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular synchronous motor; plural synchronous motors. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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