reaction motor

[rē′ak·shən ‚mōd·ər]

(aerospace engineering)

(electricity)

A synchronous motor whose rotor contains salient poles but which has no windings and no permanent magnets.

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Some readers might recall that Winter and the late Frederick Ordway III previously published Pioneering American Rocketry: The Reaction Motors, Inc.

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