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Definition: Stator |
StatorNoun1. Mechanical device consisting of the stationary part of a motor or generator in or around which the rotor revolves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | Casing, in which the rotor revolves. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | In machinery, a part or assembly that remains stationary with respect to a rotating or moving part or assembly such as the field frame of an electric motor or generator, or the stationary casing and blades surrounding an axial-flow-compressor rotor or turbine wheel; a stator blade. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The portion of a machine which includes the stationary magnetic parts with their associated windings. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A fixed part of the goniometer assembly. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Stator [the stopper or arrestor ]. When the Romans fled from the Sabines, they stopped at a certain place and made terms with the victors. On this spot they afterwards built a temple to Jupiter, and called it the temple of Jupiter Stator or Jupiter who caused them to stop in their flight. "Here, Stator Jove and Phoebus, god of verse The votive tablet I suspend." Prior. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | In a torque converter, a set of fixed vanes that change the direction of flow of fluid entering the pump or the next stage turbine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The stator is the fixed part of a rotating machine. The rotating part of the machine, or rotor normally rotates inside the stator. Examples of such machines are pumps and motors
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stator."
Synonym: StatorSynonym: stator coil (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: rotor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Lodestone, loadstone, lodestar, loadstar; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite; electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil, rotor, stator. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stator |
| Specialty definitions using "stator": AIRGAP, assembler-erector ♦ canned motor pump, canned pump, COIL SHAPER, coil spreader, copper loss, core-assembly supervisor ♦ ELECTRIC-MOTOR ANALYST, ELECTRIC-MOTOR-AND-GENERATOR ASSEMBLER ♦ Induction Motor ♦ MACHINING-AND-ASSEMBLY SUPERVISOR, Mono pump, motor-and-generator assembler ♦ phonic motor ♦ reverse-current braking, rotatable frame ♦ sheathed pump, Squirrel Cage Motor, supersonic compressor, supervisor, floor assembly, SUPERVISOR, PUNCH-AND-ASSEMBLY DEPARTMENT ♦ wound rotor motor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stator" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (stator), Portuguese (primary, primary winding, stator), Turkish (stator). |
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 | Generator works at the winding of a generator stator [sic] in a new addition to TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam, Sheffield vicinity, Ala. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | B & H Aircraft, 441 Eastern Parkway, Farmingdale. Nozzle stator. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Stator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stator" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stator": stator blade ♦ stator coil ♦ stator vane. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 定子. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stator (primary, primary winding), primaervikling (primary, primary side, primary winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stator (primary, primary winding), primair deel (primary, primary winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | staattori (primary, primary winding), ensiökäämi (primary, primary winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stator, stato, primaire, induit bobiné, inducteur (starter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stator (primary, primary winding), ständer (hard on, pillar, pillars, post, rack, stand, upright), Motorständer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στάτωρ (primary, primary winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ל'ל מכון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sztátor, állórész. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | statore (primary, primary winding), primario (guiding, head physician, leading, main, paramount, primal, primary, prime), induttore (field magnet, inducer, inductance, inductor, primary, primary winding, starter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 固定子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "ていし. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shassooane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atorstay stator (primary, primary winding), primário (prime, root), indutor (inductive, inductor), estator. (various references) статор. (various references) inductor (inductor), estator. (various references) stator (primary, primary winding). (various references) stator, sabit bobin, duraç. (various references) статор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stator": stators. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "stator": devastator, testator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stator": devastators, gustatorily, gustatory, testators. (additional references) | |
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"Stator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Attaturk, saltoro, santor, sathor, satori, satro, Sattaur, satur, sautoir, Shatrov, stabor, stador, stamor, statii, Statton, stelor, steor, Stottor, tator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stator" (pronounced 'Sta"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Devotor, fetor, Fictor, Flector, foetor, Glossator, IMPOSTOR, laudator, lector, Lentor, Levator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ottars, tarots. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: ottar, ratos, roast, rotas, start, stoat, taros, tarot, tarts, toast, toras, torts, trots. | |
-2 letters: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, star, stat, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tart, tats, tora, tors, tort, tost, tots, trot, tsar. | |
-3 letters: ars, art, att, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attorns, cottars, rattons, rotates, stators, throats, toaster. | |
+2 letters: abettors, aerostat, arnattos, arnottos, attestor, castrato, citators, contrast, cryostat, garottes, gyrostat, outrates, outsmart, outstare, outstart, patriots, prostate, pyrostat, rattoons, rheostat, ricottas, rostrate, rotators, saltwort, starwort, stratous, stromata, strontia, taborets, taproots, testator, toasters, toastier, tractors, traitors, tritomas, votarist. | |
+3 letters: abattoirs, actuators, adroitest, aerostats, aftermost, agitators, allotters, amarettos, amorettos, antistory, astrocyte, astronaut, attestors, attorneys, autocrats, betatrons, bootstrap, castrator, castratos, contracts, contrasts, contrasty, corotates, cottagers, cryostats, dictators, estimator, foretaste, frottages, garotters, garrottes, gustatory, gyrostats, imitators, littorals, nitrators, nonartist, northeast, obturates, operettas, outsmarts, outstared, outstares, outstarts, outtrades, overstate, parotitis, pastorate, patentors, poetaster, portraits, posttrial, prostates, prostatic, prostrate, protistan, protostar, protracts, pyrostats, retroacts, rheostats, rotations, rotatores, saltatory, saltworts, saturator, spectator, stalworth, starworts, stateroom, stationer, statutory, stirabout, striation, strontias, tabourets, tattooers, tautomers, teratomas, testators, tetragons, tetrapods, theocrats, titrators, tolerates, tortillas, tractions, transport, trapuntos, turncoats, tutorages, tutorials, ultrasoft, vitiators, votarists, watthours. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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