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A power-driven mechanism that supplements a primary control operated by a comparatively feeble force.

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Usage examples (39)
  • He blanched and set the reducer down next to its servomotor.
  • There once was a fellow named Schroeder, Who buggered the vane servomotor.
  • One crashed on take-off: carrying irreplaceable instruments; somebody'd put a detonator in a servomotor.
  • Can you imagine the "thrill" as one faintly hears the servomotor on a little robot arm pick up a rock on Mars?
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