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Originally Posted by prschmn
Motors are electric-engines are not
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You would be incorrect.
Webster's New World College Dictionary, third edition:
motor: 1. anything that produces or imparts motion. 2. an engine, esp. an internal combusion engine for propelling a vehicle.
engine: 1. any machine that uses energy to develop mechanical power; esp., a machine for transmitting motion to some other machine. 2. a railroad locomotive.
Then there is this:
What’s the difference between a motor and an engine? | MIT School of Engineering
Basically, engines are a subset of motors. In other words, you can say that all internal combustion engines are motors but not all motors are engines.