Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to locomotion; locomotive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which moves from place to place; anything that has or gives the power of locomotion.
- In physiology, of or pertaining to locomotion; having the function of locomotion: as, a locomotor organ; a locomotor function.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to locomotion
Etymologies
- Latin locō, from a place, ablative of locus, place + motor.
Examples
“We devised novel experiments to examine how the limbs of elephants support and propel their mass and to explore the factors that may constrain locomotor performance in these largest of living land animals.”
“Intraspecific variation in locomotor abilities among snakes is pretty special however, elsewhere being documented only where pregnancy makes big females less agile than males, and in garter snakes where individuals that have only just emerged from hibernation are less agile than warmed-up, fully active indiduals (Shine et al. 2000).”
“Intraspecific variation in locomotor ability was studied in L. colubrina by Shine & Shetty (2001a) who found that males were substantially more agile on land than were females.”
“In view of all this intraspecific variability, Shine & Shetty (2001a) noted how Yellow-lipped sea kraits might ‘offer exceptional opportunities to study phylogenetic shift in locomotor ability’ because they ‘display considerable intraspecific and interspecific diversity in terms of the degree to which they use terrestrial vs. aquatic habits’ (p. 338).”
“Mercury, iodine and all other alteratives, by suppression of external elimination, create internal chronic diseases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxy, paresis, etc.”
“They also enable us to treat many cases of nervous diseases heretofore regarded as almost hopeless, such as locomotor ataxia, paralysis, epilepsy and spinal affections, with a degree of success which has been very gratifying alike to physicians and patients.”
“As part of a research project at the University of Louisville, he underwent 26 months of locomotor training, a rehabilitative technique in which he was suspended in a harness over a treadmill while therapists moved his legs to make a stepping motion.”
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“Besides minimizing heat loss in winter by means of increased insulation, reindeer and caribou can reduce energy expenditure by adopting appropriate behavior; in particular, by reducing the total daily locomotor activity.”
“You must know by now that so long as the company is represented by you and Jesse I will belong to it until old age or locomotor ataxia sever my connection.”
“What was the locomotor adaptation of Ardipithecus really like?”
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