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A piece of equipment which drives machinery using mechanical or electrical power. Cf. drive, n. 20a.
Subcategories:
— maintaining constancy (1)
— flexible conductor (1)
— loss of energy (1)
— material for insulating (1)
— control circuit (1)
— reactor (2)
— regulation of current (8)
— terminal point of machine (2)