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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dynamo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bicycle lights are usually powered by a dynamo.
▪ Jasso is the 5 foot 2 inch dynamo who is in charge of the teaching program.
▪ Oil production is the dynamo that drives Iraq's economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that gives dynamo theorists a way to solve one aspect of how the molten iron mixes.
▪ As the Countess of Dartmouth, she was a dynamo in London politics in the 1960s.
▪ Here was a brand-new kind of eartha rolling, boiling dynamo.
▪ That physical phenomenon is the muscle behind a dynamo, or standard electric generator.
▪ The seller offered to meet half the cost of repairing the dynamo.
▪ They have generators under the floors ... like dynamos on bicycles ... that make electricity from the wheels going round.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dynamo

Dynamo \Dy"na*mo\, n. A dynamo-electric machine.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dynamo

1882, short for dynamo-machine, from German dynamoelektrischemaschine "dynamo-electric machine," coined 1867 by its inventor, German electrical engineer Werner Siemans (1816-1892), from Greek dynamis "power."

Wiktionary
dynamo

n. 1 A dynamo-electric machine. 2 An energetic person.

WordNet
dynamo

n. generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature

Wikipedia
Dynamo (disambiguation)

Dynamo or Dinamo may refer to:

Dynamo (Soda Stereo album)

Dynamo is an album recorded by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. It is their sixth full-length album and it was first released in Argentina by Sony Music Argentina in 1992.

Considered one of the most core examples of a shoegazing album (and Hispanic shoegaze's high point by critics and fans alike), this is a very modern album that might have been accepted in anglophone music, and was quite visionary for those years. The album also maintained the drastic change of musical style previously experienced in their 1990 album, Canción Animal. This album may also be considered one of the most mature and evolutionary deeds of the band.

A highly experimental record, the album failed to reach its predecessor's popularity due to many factors, including lack of support from the band's label. It also alienated many fans, who had a hard time trying to cope with the unexpected shift in the band's musical style. Nonetheless, a few songs received a fair amount of radio airplay, including "Primavera 0" and "Luna Roja".

The release of Dynamo prompted a nationwide tour, including a six night residency at Arena Obras Sanitarias, then known as the "Temple of Rock" by the local press. The band invited several up-and-coming bands from the alternative scene such as Babasónicos, Juana La Loca and Martes Menta to fill the support slots at those concerts, thus giving exposure to a scene that would become influential (and in some cases commercially successful) over the years. In this respect it can be argued that in spite of an apparent commercial failure (it went Double Platinum within a few weeks), Soda Stereo were never as influential on the development of new bands as in the Dynamo era. It also established the band as a sort of forefathers of the 90s alternative scene in Argentina, even when their role was mostly as propagandists of sorts.

Dynamo (comics)

Dynamo, in comics, may refer to:

  • Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate), a 1940s comic book character
  • Dynamo, one of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
  • Captain Dynamo (comics), a comic book superhero
  • Crimson Dynamo, the name of several Marvel Comics characters
  • Dynamo 5, a superhero team formed of the children of Captain Dynamo
  • Dynamo Boy, an expelled member of the Legion of Super-Heroes
  • Dynamo Joe, a 1980s comic book series
Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate)

Dynamo is a fictional superhero that appeared in comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. He originally appeared in Science Comics #1 (February 1940) under the name Electro. He appeared for the first time as Dynamo in Science Comics #2 (March 1940).

Dynamo (magician)

Steven Frayne (born 17 December 1982), commonly known by his stage name "Dynamo", is an English magician, best known for his award-winning television show Dynamo: Magician Impossible which ran from July 2011 to September 2014.

Dynamo (play)

Dynamo is a play in three acts written by Eugene O'Neill in 1929, each act is composed of three scenes.

Dynamo (storage system)

Dynamo is the name given to a set of techniques that when taken together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system or a distributed data store. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). Amazon DynamoDB is "built on the principles of Dynamo" (apparently with some improvements) and is a hosted service within the AWS infrastructure. It was created to help address some scalability issues that Amazon.com's website experienced during the holiday season of 2004. Today it is "used to power parts of our Amazon Web Services, such as S3."

Dynamo (Avengers in Sci-Fi album)

Dynamo (stylised as dynamo) is Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi's third studio album, and first under a major record label. It was released on October 13, 2010, as an exclusive download on iTunes simultaneously with their live album Crazy Gonna Spacey, with the album's wide release on the 20th.

Dynamo

A dynamo is an electrical generator that produces direct current with the use of a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary converter. Today, the simpler alternator dominates large scale power generation, for efficiency, reliability and cost reasons. A dynamo has the disadvantages of a mechanical commutator. Also, converting alternating to direct current using power rectification devices (vacuum tube or more recently solid state) is effective and usually economical.

DYNAMO (programming language)

DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) was a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework. It was originally for industrial dynamics but was soon extended to other applications, including population and resource studies and urban planning.

DYNAMO was initially developed under the direction of Jay Wright Forrester in the late 1950s, by Dr. Phyllis Fox, Alexander L. Pugh III, Grace Duren, and others at the M.I.T. Computation Center. The earliest versions were written in assembly language for the IBM 704, then for the IBM 709 and IBM 7090. DYNAMO II was written in AED-0, an extended version of Algol 60. Dynamo II/F, in 1971, generated portable FORTRAN code and both Dynamo II/F and Dynamo III improved the system's portability by being written in FORTRAN.

Computer & Control Abstracts,
Volume 11,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
p.1591

DYNAMO was used for the system dynamics simulations of global resource-depletion reported in the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth. Originally designed for batch processing on mainframe computers, it was made available on minicomputers in the late 1970s, and became available as "micro-Dynamo" on personal computers in the early 1980s. The language went through several revisions from DYNAMO II up to DYNAMO IV in 1983, but has since fallen into disuse.

Dynamo (Ukraine)

Physically cultural and sport association "Dynamo" - Ukraine (, transliteration: FST "Dynamo" Ukrayiny) or Dynamo - Ukraine is a sports club that was established in the Soviet Union as part of the Soviet sports society "Dynamo". It was created on October 31, 1924 in Kharkiv. Since that time the sports club stays as one of the best clubs in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Among the six existing sports association in Ukraine, Dynamo can be considered the leading. At the 2012 Summer Olympics out of 245 sports people of Ukraine, 125 represented Dynamo. Eighty two sports people represented law enforcement agencies. Forty one out 125 athletes were from the city of Kiev and Donetsk Oblast. Dynamo's members were honorary national banner carriers for opening and closing ceremonies.

Dynamo (Alton Towers)

Dynamo was a Huss Breakdance located in the Forbidden Valley area of the park. It was situated where Nemesis: Sub-Terra stands now. It was the first ride seen to your left when entering the area and was opposite to Ripsaw which is a Huss Top Spin. During its lifetime, Dynamo was the only Huss Breakdance in the United Kingdom. After its closure, no Huss Breakdance rides existed in the UK until Powder Kegs, a Breakdance 4 opened at Lightwater Valley in 2011.

Usage examples of "dynamo".

The guardian of the dynamo watched anxiously as the spokes blurred with speed and became a film.

He snapped small plugs into receivers and wired up the crisis engine to the dynamos and transformers that converted one uncanny form of energy into another.

Privalov unlocked the doors of a room in which a stator from a big dynamo stood.

Frantically spinning his wheel, and turning the gyrocar in its own length, Wohl fed current to the powerful dynamo.

The crisis-bank of extra batteries added their power, and with the dynamo screaming its top note, the gyrocar leaped forward.

So Harry and I sat the semi-conscious Mackie on our linked wrists and draped her arms round our necks, and we set off towards the village with Bob Watson carrying all the wet clothes in one of my bags, Fiona carrying dry things in the other and Ingrid shuffling along in front in the moon-boots with my camera case, lighting the way with the dynamo torch from my basic travel kit.

As old and frail as the Master of Sinanju appeared, under the wrinkles and semitranslucent skin, he was a human dynamo.

And each time as their talk wound down she would find some reason to reach out and touch him, hold his shoulder, and he would clasp her arm in his vicelike grip, quivering with energy, as if his internal dynamo was spinning so fast he could barely hold himself together.

Almost all the new whizzbang gadgets on the cutting edge of maginology use an air golem somewhere, from the highly compressed ghun bullets to the Subway Vacuum Dynamo, and the poor punks pay.

The two inventors, young and old, entered, and Tom quickly crossed to where the wires from the automatic dynamo, extended to the searchlight outside the window of his room.

Ironically, because she had done so well, Aurigaens now tended to take her for granted, to assume the fast and faultless service she rendered in her gestalt with the mighty dynamos of the Tower.

In future, the men of reason must see that the madness of the world's maniacs is canalised into proper channels, is made to do useful work, like a mountain torrent driving a dynamo.

It was uncontained, a vague grouping of separate motors and dynamos and converters spread across the floor, connected by rough-and-ready engineering.

They thought that to be masculine, they had to be copulative dynamos, and it was largely to prop up their insecure masculinity that they resorted to sexual display, whereas, in fact, it was their relatively mild interest in actual physical contact that was largely the source of that insecurity.

It was a strangely critical moment when he seized the corroded throttle-wheel to start the dynamo.