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starter motor
noun
An electrical motor, which is part of a modern car or truck, etc., which is used to initially turn the internal combustion engine of the vehicle to make it start.
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The RAC tell us that the starter motor is burnt out.
Ten of the garages, meanwhile, recommended costly repairs that were plainly unnecessary, like replacing the starter motor or the battery.
Discrete event control and qualitative reasoning are successfully applied in an industrial setting to the robotic assembly of the gear mechanism portion of an automobile starter motor.
The outer rim of the flywheel usually carries gear teeth so as to mesh with the starter motor.
This works better than the starter motor on a regular car because the hybrid's 13-horsepower electric motor is more powerful.
Spin the starter motor and the 420-horsepower, 4.2-liter V-8 directly behind your head greets the day with a ragged, grumpy cacophony of angry internal combustion.
Stumped by a starter motor that seemed to check out in every way but wouldn't work, I started asking around at Honda dealerships.
It had no heating, no stereo, one windscreen wiper and, towards the end of its short but joyous life in my hands, no starter motor.
That is fine for turning a starter motor, but it is not so good for powering an electric motor intended to move a car any distance.
When higher torque is required, as, for example, in the starter motor of an automobile, stronger magnets such as neodymium-iron-boron may be employed.
Ben Naylor Servicing the car Changing your own starter motor was once not only a matter of pride, but a matter of course.
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