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Servo-Motor
- - A relay apparatus; specif.: (a) An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve of the motor. (b) In a Whitehead torpedo, a compressed-air motor, for moving the rudders so as to correct deviations from the course.
Servosystem
- noun - control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system
Set On Fire
- verb - set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest"
Sex Offense
- noun - a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat; "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"
Sextodecimo
- - Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.
Shadow Play
- noun - a drama executed by throwing shadows on a wall
Shadow Show
- noun - a drama executed by throwing shadows on a wall
Shadowboxes
- verb - go through boxing motions without an opponent
Shadowgraph
- noun - a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
Shadowiness
- noun - relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take good photographs"