How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun
Definition of rotornext
  • 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
  • The rotor roared above the Sonoran desert, kicking up dust and wind.
    — Alex Devoid, azcentral, 27 June 2018
  • So the rotors push the air down and increase the air-momentum.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • Chopper would be about the size of an SUV, with six rotors, each with six blades.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2024
  • But the wave rotor is not the only unique thing about Gosse’s spaceship.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
  • As the noise from the rotors faded, the firefight began.
    — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The sound of the vast rotors rippled through the air tossing up the lagoon’s waters in a misty haze.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 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
  • Given the physics of flying there, a rotor that size can’t lift more than 4 pounds here on Earth.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Forward thrust makes the rotor blades spin, and the blades alone provide lift and control.
    — Kevin V. Brown, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
  • The crash was blamed on the tail rotor hitting a tree, the station reported.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 3 May 2018
  • Its rotor, which provides lift, spins freely without the help of the engine.
    — Chris Boyette, CNN, 30 July 2023
  • Then the main rotor is about hundred yards beyond that.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • One of its rotor blades broke off during touchdown and was flung away to one side (far left).
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • All four tail rotor blades were separated, and one of the blades was not found.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 24 July 2019
  • 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
  • The gearbox is the aircraft’s transmission and contains five pinion gears that spin to send energy from the engine to the Osprey’s masts and rotor blades.
    — Brad Dress, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024

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