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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
servo

1910, from servo-motor (1889), from French servo-moteur (1873), ultimately from Latin servus "slave" (see serve (v.)) + motor "mover" (see motor (n.)).

Wiktionary
servo

Etymology 1 n. A servomechanism or servomotor. Etymology 2

n. (context Australia New Zealand English) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.

WordNet
servo

adj. of or involving servomechanisms [syn: servomechanical]

servo

n. control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system [syn: servomechanism, servosystem]

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Servo

Servo may refer to:

Servo (radio control)

Servos (also RC servos) are small, cheap, mass-produced servomotors or other actuators used for radio control and small-scale robotics.

Most servos are rotary actuators although other types are available. Linear actuators are sometimes used, although it is more common to use a rotary actuator with a bellcrank and pushrod. Some types, originally used as sail winches for model yachting, can rotate continuously.

Servo (layout engine)

Servo is an experimental web browser layout engine being developed by Mozilla Research, with Samsung porting it to Android and ARM processors. The prototype seeks to create a highly parallel environment, in which many components (such as rendering, layout, HTML parsing, image decoding, etc.) are handled by fine-grained, isolated tasks. Source code for the project is written in the Rust programming language.

Servo provides a consistent API for hosting the engine within other software. It is designed to be compatible with Chromium Embedded Framework, an API used by Adobe and Valve Corporation to incorporate the Blink rendering engine within their own products. Allowing Servo to be dropped in as a replacement engine simplifies real-world testing.

Two significant components used by Servo are based on pre-existing C++ code from Mozilla. JavaScript support is provided by SpiderMonkey, and the 2D graphics library Azure is used to interface to OpenGL and Direct3D.

Servo is named after Tom Servo, a robot from the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Usage examples of "servo".

Usually it was used in assessing damage to meteor-punctured space-construction servos or remote units by resurrecting dead software for examination.

A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.

The barricade ahead of them was corycium, brought in by the handler servos, and plasma rounds had splashed off the front, or welded the ingots together and made the barrier stronger.

He scrambled for balance, hampered by servos that were slower than his own muscles, lunged forward at the last moment and landed belly down across the top of the rolligon, still holding the fadeaway bomb.

The sophisticated servo arms pulled one microfiber canvas after another out of the enameled, cabinet-mounted rack to show Simeon, who appreciated all and made sensible comments about several.

A pulpy-looking servo, whose organometallic casing and squat, smiling head had a swollen and almost diseased appearance, showed her to a chair.

She had no housekeeping servos within the lift itself Sev had to stagger forward, out of the lift, fetching up against the freshly painted corridor wall with a thump.

Then Juno hearing the prayers of Psyches, appeared unto her in all her royalty, saying, Certes Psyches I would gladly help thee, but I am ashamed to do any thing contrary to the will of my daughter in law Venus, whom alwaies I have loved as mine owne child, moreover I shall incurre the danger of the law, intituled, De servo corrupto, whereby am forbidden to retaine any servant fugitive, against the will of his Master.

Down in the bowels of the sandcrawler, Het Nkik scurried among the merchandise, tweaking the barely functional droids and servo apparatus.

Both men wolfed, but the servo still served up two plates of flapjacks before they finished the first course.

They followed their servos out of the white dome and into a passage toward the transit tube that would drop them through the planet Blade, through the space between the planets, and on down to the caves of play deep in Stone.

He knew the servos must be recording all that happened for the judges and casinos and holocasters.

A long time later, at the end of another red-lit passage, he found them waiting with their servos outside a tall doorway.

The servos separated here to lead them apart, but Wing glided back to him, her yellow crown flashing.

They pushed away from it across the time-scarred floor, their own silent servos dancing beside them.