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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motor pool
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As head of the Fort Baxter motor pool, Bilko runs all the fun and games on the base.
▪ We stayed with our chargers, in the motor pool.
▪ When the Jeep was found the next day, parked in the Camp Holloway motor pool, it caused a stink.
Wiktionary
motor pool

n. (context US military English) A fleet of vehicles for use by a military installation; the department that maintains them

WordNet
motor pool

n. a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed

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Motor pool (neuroscience)

A motor pool consists of all individual motor neurons that innervate a single muscle. Each individual muscle fiber is innervated by only one motor neuron, but one motor neuron may innervate several muscle fibers. This distinction is physiologically significant because the size of a given motor pools determines the activity of the muscle it innervates: for example, muscles responsible for finer movements are innervated by motor pools consisting of higher numbers of individual motor neurons. Motor pools are also distinguished by the different classes of motor neurons that they contain. The size, composition, and anatomical location of each motor pool is tightly controlled by complex developmental pathways.