Wiktionary
a. Having its own means of propulsion that moves with it.
WordNet
adj. containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement; "a self-propelled vehicle" [syn: automotive, self-propelling]
moved forward by its own force or momentum; "a self-propelled egotist"; "the arms program is now self-propelled" [syn: self-propelling]
Wikipedia
Self-propelled may refer to
- Human-powered transport, humans moving themselves (and their cargo) via their own muscle energy
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Machines that power their own movement:
- Automobile (from auto- + mobile, "self-moving")
- Locomotive (from loco- + motive, "moving from its current place")
- Multiple units, self-propelled train carriages
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Self-propelled artillery
- Self-propelled gun
- Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
- Tank destroyer, a self-propelled anti-tank gun
- Mortar carrier, a self-propelled mortar
- Self-propelled modular transporter
- Leonardo's self-propelled cart
- Self-propelled barge T-36
- Self-propelled particles, a model for studying the motion of swarms
Usage examples of "self-propelled".
It destabilized the glacier with heat bombs, self-propelled lasers, and rocket exhausts.
As the inventor of this delightful two-wheeled, self-propelled scooter describes it, the Segway vehicle moves by the rider thinking it forward or backward -- not unlike walking -- all without falling.
He tried to touch up his image of her, making her less waiflike and dependent, less the hapless, whining victim of circumstances, more of a self-propelled inner-guided individual with purpose and direction and a sphere of interests.
Vehicles are rolling across as before - tanks, busses, APCs, self-propelled guns, fuel trucks - but near the middle, on one side, stands a stark naked stout man, fighting with soldiers.
You wondering about us, whoever you are, you thinking about old Goo Boy and Dogwalker, you guessing whether the fangs who scooped Doggy's skull and turned him into self-propelled property paid for it down to the very last delicious little drop.
Self-propelled atomic piles held an honored place in the berserker arsenal of weapons.
Why not progress into further etherealization by way of seven-league boots, flying carpets, self-propelled boats.
A troop-transport must be loading with refugees from the emergency bubbles, and a human-built self-propelled graving dock had been brought for heavy repair work.
In anticipation of this moment, she had invested in a brand- new lawn mower, self-propelled, state-of-the-art, guaranteed to make her brother, David, turn green with envy.
In the outskirts of the city, the German defeat was written in the snow, in loxig trails winding westward of smashed tanks, self-propelled guns, howitzers, trucks, half-tracks, and most of all in gray-clad bodies by the thousands, still strewn like garbage over the quiet cratered fields, miles upon miles.
The figures still beggar the imagination: some four hundred thousand motor vehicles, two thousand locomotives, eleven thousand railway cars, seven thousand tanks, and more than six thousand self-propelled guns and half-tracks, with the two million seven hundred thousand tons of petroleum and other products required to put the primitive Slav horde on wheels.
The pilot guided them slowly past Hovertanks and Logans, and second-generation Destroids along with armored ground vehicles and self-propelled artillery.
The Leopard was a self-propelled twin rapid-fire gun system mounted on a tank chassis.
The bugs are just self-assembling and self-propelled packaging around the microbe suite.
He was killed when he wrecked a self-propelled vehicle he was using.