Meaning of motorboard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The mount that holds the motor on a record player.
2. A circuit board that controls one or more motors.
3. A motorized surfboard or scooter.
4. An outboard motor.

Examples

“In order to align this receiver for I.F. the four wood screws holding the motorboard to the cabinet will have to be removed.”

“Home-made rubber washers act as shock absorbers and prevent vibrations of the motor from being transmitted to the motorboard and so reaching the pickup.”

“The fixed operating speeds of 33 1/3 and 45 rpm are selected by a sliding plate on the motorboard that shifts the neoprene belt to the required diameter of the motor shaft.”

“Each Motorboard is able to control six motors and to read in their sensory information.”

“For instance, employees were using computers powered by motorboard batteries and stocking shelves in the same way as they had done for the past 15 years.”

“This is the urban beach in a complexity of tide flows and appearances. I am a storm bath with a nervous motorboard.”

“Inventor Gilpin risks new suit to show off his new motorboard.”

“The Motorboard's throttle may be operated from a sitting, prone or standing position and will shut off when the operator leaves the board.”

“From green cars, motorboard commuting, to the Luxim microwave bulb — this site merges technology with environmental consciousness to get its own unique version of green-ology.”

“She roared toward King Spud on her Motorboard. “Here I come!””

“If you think of an outboard motorboard as a lever, the propeller is the thrust point and the transom is the fulcrum.”

“A pump unit for a motorboard having a screw disposed in the water when the motorboat is in the water, the screw constituting a propeller for moving the boat along in the water and constituting an impeller when the pump unit claimed hereinbelow is applied thereto, the motorboat also having a structure mountin the screw, the axis of rotation of the screw determing a longitudinal direction extending fore and aft...”

“She got in at 6 and around 7 I gave up in disgust and hired a motorboard boat.”

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