How to Use rotor in a Sentence

rotor

noun

• Those bolts clamp blades to the rotor and bear the stress of wind and motion.
  — The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Put the pads and bracket back over the rotor and reinsert the bolts.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Most cars have a disk (called a rotor) attached to the wheel.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• The damage suggests the rotor hit the surface on the way down.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2024
• As a result, the helicopter’s rotor struck the flight deck and the aircraft crashed over the side of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
• Strain on rotor shaft The torque meter measures the strain on the rotor shaft.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Its rotor, which provides lift, spins freely without the help of the engine.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 30 July 2023
• All but three of the cars built were powered by a Wankel, debuting with a three-rotor unit.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
• The motion of wind rotates the large blades of the turbine, which in turn rotates a rotor in the square box at the top of the turbine, called a nacelle.
  — London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
• The transmission was found with the rotor head and blades still attached about 20 feet from the main wreckage, the report said.
  — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
• In the Smøla test, researchers painted one rotor on four turbines black in 2013.
  — Byian Mount, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
• And in spite of hitting a top speed of only 250 rpm, the fan is even more well-balanced than the rotor of a turbocharger.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2022
• Brakes: If the rotors are very hot, exposure to water can warp them.
  — Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• This flotation device served as the machine’s hull in the water, and was shaped like a trefoil to leave room for the airflow of the rotors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
• That side-to-side movement caused the helicopter’s main rotor to strike the flight deck, which in turn led to the helicopter going over the side of the ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2021
• Everybody who owns a car or truck should learn how to replace their brake pads and rotors.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• The white main rotor blade was fractured found in an adjacent field.
  — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2024
• The open caseback offers a view of the movement, with its modern blue finish on the rotor and balance bridge.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2021
• Most street cars use iron brake rotors with single-piston steel calipers.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Russian helicopters swept low over the Dnieper, their rotor blades slicing the moist winter air in the fold of the river valley.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• The 50th Anniversary rotor makes this hard to beat as a collector’s piece.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022
• The whump-whump of two-rotor Chinooks and Black Hawk helicopters buzzing nearby.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2021
• Of course, this system requires replacing your stock rear disc-brake rotor with the DiskDrive.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• The vibration led to the aircraft’s rotor striking the flight deck of the Lincoln, which in turn caused the helicopter to crash and fall overboard into the sea.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2021
• The rotors, which are visible via the caseback, resemble the Spyder RS wheel and can be finished in a range of hues.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• All commercial turbines are programed to always turn or ‘yaw' their rotors to face the wind.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The pilots circled and deftly landed on a little strip of sand, careful to keep the rotor blades from hitting the eroding wall of rock on the beach’s edge.
  — Susanne Rust, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2021
• As the rotor spins along with the rotating magnetic field, torque is produced.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
• Zero porpoises passed through the areas while the rotors were in motion.
  — Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
• Porsche says the lamination of magnets on the rotors has been improved over the Taycan, as has the water cooling.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024