Prime Mover Definition

noun
The original force in a series of transmissions of force.
Webster's New World
One regarded as the initial source of energy directed toward a goal.
Patriotism was the prime mover of the revolution.
American Heritage
The initial force, such as electricity, wind, or gravity, that engages or moves a machine.
American Heritage
Any initiating or principal force.
Webster's New World
Any natural force applied by people to produce power, as muscular energy or flowing water.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
prime mover
Plural:
prime-movers

Origin of Prime Mover

  • Originally in translation of Latin primum mobile.

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Prime Mover Sentence Examples

  • He was also a prime mover in the establishment of the Cambridge Astronomical Observatory, and in the founding of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

  • The prime mover of the great rebellion of 1648, which shook the Polish state to its very foundations, was the Cossack Bohdan Chmielnicki (q.v.), who had been initiated in all the plans of Wladislaus IV.

  • For the First Crusade William had followed Albert of Aix; and he had consequently depicted Peter the Hermit as the prime mover in the Crusade.

  • At Ackworth, in the neighbourhood, there is a large school of the Society of Friends or Quakers (1778), in the foundation of which Dr John Fothergill (1712-1780) was a prime mover.

  • The origin of the differentiation process is to be sought in a " prime mover " (7rpc7yrov Ku'ofiv), i.e.

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