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Electric motors have moving parts and at least where I am nobody would call one an electric engine. Automobiles generally have engines, but motor isn't uncommo
by starspangled 2y ago
Electric motors have moving parts and at least where I am nobody would call one an electric engine.
Automobiles generally have engines, but motor isn't uncommon for (internal combustion) engines there either. Motor car is something I remember my grandfather saying although I guess that's not really used anymore, but motorbike certainly is. So is motorsports. "Blown motor" is a pretty common phrase for an IC engine that has stopped working due to damage.
Engine has some exclusive cases where motor does not substitute. Jet engine and steam engine come to mind.
- Retric 2y agoDepends on what you consider part of the motor. Linear electric motors directly apply force to something else like a train car without themselves having moving parts.
- southernplaces7 2y ago>Electric motors have moving parts and at least where I am nobody would call one an electric engine. Second this. In photography, the little electric drive motors inside camera lenses are never called engines, though they definitely do have small moving parts.
- entropicgravity 2y agoYes, but in the marine realm they are consistently called outboard motors and not outboard engines.