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motive power

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motive power
n
1. (Physics / General Physics) any source of energy used to produce motion
2. (Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) the means of supplying power to an engine, vehicle, etc.
3. (Physics / General Physics) any driving force
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Noun1.motive powermotive power - the power or ability to move        
locomotion, motivity
mobility - the quality of moving freely


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Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams' of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
We would have to discover a motive power of extraordinary force, and almost impossible lightness of machinery.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
But about that time I noticed that the motive power had taken to standing on one leg, and I found that there was something the matter with the other one; so I stocked the business and unloaded, taking Sir Bors de Ganis into camp financially along with certain of his friends; for the works stopped within a year, and the good saint got him to his rest.
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