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Definition of Motive power

Motive power
Motive Mo"tive, a. Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power. ``Motive faculty.' --Bp. Wilkins. Motive power (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam, wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to machinery; a motor; a mover.

Meaning of Motive power from wikipedia

- Motive power may refer to: In thermodynamics, natural agents such as water or steam, wind or electricity, that do work In mechanics, the mechanical energy...
- for his attempts to construct an electrically powered Messiah which he referred to as the "New Motive Power". Spear was born in the city of Boston in 1804...
- MotivePower, Inc. (MPI) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wabtec, and traces its...
- A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained....
- Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power. Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale...
- October 16, 1927 Our ****ure Motive Power, Everyday Science and Mechanics, December 1931 Pioneer Radio Engineer Gives Views On Power, New York Herald Tribune...
- Motive Power is a bi-monthly railway related magazine that focuses on diesel locomotives in Australia. The first issue was published on 23 August 1998...
- thermodynamics". He published only one book, the Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Paris, 1824), in which he expressed the first successful theory...
- The Electric Motive Power was an English electric car manufactured in 1897. A heavy phaeton, it was capable of running 20 miles (32 km) on one charge....
- Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines ****ed to Develop that Power is a scientific treatise written by the French military engineer...