1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Stator Iupiter, was called Iupiter stator of Romulus, bycause he supposed that he made the Romaynes to tarye whan they fledde, the Samnites pursuynge them.]

a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 514 He was the Stator, the Saviour of the Nation.

1704 J. Toland Lett. Serena Pref. sig. c8 The inimitable Stator of our Liberty, King William.

1872 W. H. Van Doren Suggestive Comm. St. John I. v. 464 Heathen called Jove Stator, but Christ is the Stator of the universe.

1892 Electr. World 1 Oct. 209/3 There are two laminated so-called field magnets, or ‘stators’, as we may call them, each embracing a so-called armature or ‘rotor’.

1895 S. P. Thompson Polyphase Electr. Currents v. 113 In describing the parts of polyphase motors..[we] shall call the rotating part the rotor, and the stationary part the stator.

1928 R. B. Matthews Electro-farming iv. 67 A method of improving this [sc. power factor], is to fit a star-delta switch for the stator, the star position being marked, say, ‘light load’, and the delta position ‘heavy load’.

1952 G. V. Mueller Alternating-current Machines viii. 284 The rotor conductors are moving faster than the magnetic field of the stator.

1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) xvi. 255 In the induction motor, the mechanical force produced between the rotor and the stator by the current is transformed into mechanical power.

2005 C. W. de Silva Mechatronics vi. 509 The air gap between the rotor and the stator will be less uniform.

1904 Motor 6 Jan. 580/1 The ‘stator’ discs are fixed to the cylinder or barrel as shown, and the ‘rotors’ oppositely cut as regards the helical vanes fit on a feather or sunk key on the shaft.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 846/1 The tips [of the blades] are fined down..so that in the event of contact taking place..between the ‘rotor’ or revolving part, and the ‘stator’ or case, they may grind without being stripped off.

1951 H. Cohen & G. F. C. Rogers Gas Turbine Theory vi. 133 Each stage will consist of one rotating row followed by a stator but it is usual to provide an additional stator row at entry to guide the air correctly into the first rotor.

1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics x. 404 The rotor turns within the stator, which is a series of blades arranged in a circle around the inside wall of the compressor housing.

2003 RCM & E (Radio Control Models & Electronics) Dec. 63/2 Their success was partly due to the fact that the stators in the fan unit had been cleverly thought-out to smooth the swirling air coming from the impeller.

1975 F. O. Schmidt et al. Functional Linkage in Biomolecular Syst. xiii. 292 A flagellum is driven at its base by a rotary motor, implying the existence of biological equivalents to a rotor, a stator, and rotary bearings.]

1976 H. C. Berg in R. Goldman et al. Cell Motility 48 This implies that the rotor and stator are rigidly engaged.

1993 Wear 168 190/1 The Mot complex and switch complex are thought to be the stator part of the flagellar motor.

2009 R. Sowa & R. M. Berry in A. Knight Single Molecule Biol. iv. 130 In a conformational change model, ion transit through a stator is coupled to a cycle of conformational changes of the stator that exerts torque on the rotor.

1898 E. J. Houston & A. E. Kennelly Recent Types Dynamo-electric Machinery viii. 298 AA, is the stator armature ring wound with coils situated in grooves in a laminated iron core.

1913 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 32 1286 The alternator used was a Cahill multifrequency generator employing a number of stator armatures side by side.

2007 L. L. Lai & T. F. Chan Distributed Generation ii. 26 The stator armature consisted of a laminated toroidal core on which the air gap winding was wound.

1906 T. Stevens & H. M. Hobart Steam Turbine Engin. iv. 139 Fig. 79 gives a view of the inside of the lower half of the casing, and shows the stator blades in place.

1946 G. G. Smith Gas Turbines & Jet Propulsion for Aircraft (ed. 4) iv. 58 Stator blades to direct the air flow between stages will also be of either steel or light alloy.

2008 C. Soares Gas Turbines xii. 545 The rotor blades and stator blades of stage 1 and stage 2 are highly temperature loaded, internally-cooled blades.

1895 S. P. Thompson Polyphase Electr. Currents xiii. 197 The actual torque obtained of course depends upon the current which is passed through the stator coils.

1993 Flyer July 60/2 The most convenient way to do this is to arrange an electro-magnet..around the armature, and rotate it next to the stator coil.

2001 Dirt Bike July 104/1 (advt.) Replacement stator coils available for most dirt bikes.

1898 Electr. Rev. 4 Feb. 137/1 False rotor currents..may even under certain circumstances exert a torque in the opposite direction to that of the forward stator field.

1982 S. Ciarcia Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar III. 123 (caption) Different types of DC motors are distinguished by the type of stator field.

2007 C. A. Gross Electric Machines v. 192 The direction of the rotating stator field determined the rotor direction of rotation for motor operation.

1895 S. P. Thompson Polyphase Electr. Currents v. 113 The stator winding is usually the primary, the rotor winding secondary.

1961 M. G. Say Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 10) viii. 35 Lower starting currents with reduced starting torque may be obtained..by having the stator winding arranged in two halves which are normally connected in parallel but which are connected in series for starting.

2009 E. R. Sherman Outboard Engines (ed. 2) vi. 52/2 Your meter should read infinity. If not, your stator windings have a breakdown in their insulation somewhere, and will have to be replaced.