The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motor generator \Motor generator\ The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft.
Usage examples of "motor generator".
A strangely tense silence predominated, broken only by the intermittent cries of kittiwakes wheeling and diving above the frozen marshes beyond the perimeter fence, and the humming of a motor generator supplying power from one of the parked trailers.
In the power room, a hastily arranged motor generator set was arranged, making it possible to run the entire ship from the batteries.
It was most of it light stuff that could be carried over from one aircraft to the other, all except one motor generator set that the Dakota had brought for us to take back to Diento.
Down on 3 deck, Scanes checked the diesel and motor generator compartment, with its ear-splitting noise level.
A murmur, faint at first, became louder, and since they already knew what it was, it was easily identified as the rumble of the motor generator set.
Then Long Tom gave the spring-motor generator of his flashlight a twist, and they had light on the individuals who had been dropped through the roof lid.